Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish اویانمق (uyanmak, oyanmak, to wake up), from Proto-Turkic *od-un-, reflexive/passive of Proto-Turkic *od-.[1] Cognate to uyarmak (to alert, warn, awake).

Also compare Mongolian удах (udax, to cause, stir up) and Even хиду (hidu, to instigate). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (oδun-, to awake) Old Uyghur [script needed] (odon-, to awake), Azerbaijani oyanmaq (to awake), Bashkir уяныу (uyanıw, to awake), Chuvash вӑран (văran, to awake), Kazakh ояну (oänu, to awake), Kyrgyz ойгонуу (oygonuu, to awake), Turkmen oýanmak (to awake), Uzbek uygʻonmoq (to awake).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ujɑnmɑk]
  • Hyphenation: u‧yan‧mak

Verb edit

uyanmak (third-person singular simple present uyanır)

  1. (intransitive) to wake, wake up, awaken, waken
  2. (intransitive, for a thought) to arise
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) to figure out; to come to understand; to see through

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References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*od-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill