Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish ییتمك (yitmek, to be lost), from Proto-Turkic *yit- (to be lost).[1]

Verb edit

yitmek (third-person singular simple present yiter)

  1. (intransitive) to be lost; to be missing; to disappear; to vanish.
    Synonym: kaybolmak

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

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