yumruk
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish یومروق (yumruk, “fist”), further origin unclear. Either a derivation from Proto-Turkic *yum (“round”)[1] (see yumak, yumru) or from Proto-Turkic *yudruk (“fist”) with secondary contamination with the former.[2] Clauson thinks it is rather derived from *yumur-, unrecorded causative of Proto-Turkic *yum- (“to close”), in the sense of "something clenched",[3] see yum- (“to close, clench”).
Cognate to Azerbaijani yumruq (“fist”), Chagatai [script needed] (yumruq, “fist”), Turkmen ýumruk (“fist”). Compare also Old Uyghur yydrwq (yïdruq, “fist”), Karakhanid يُذْرُقْ (yuδruq, “fist”), Bashkir йоҙроҡ (yoźroq, “fist”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityumruk (definite accusative yumruğu, plural yumruklar)
Declension
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editReferences
edit- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jɨdruk / *judruk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-05-07) “yumruk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yıdruk”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 892