батыу
Bashkir
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *bat- (“to sink”)[1].
Cognate withTurkish batmak (“to sink, set”), Yakut батылын (batılın, “to sink”), Chuvash пут (put, “to sink, drown”).
Verb
батыу • (batïw) (intransitive)
- to sink, submerge
- Ағас һыуға батмай.
- Ağas hïwğa batmay.
- Wood does not sink in water.
- to drown
- get bogged down
- (of heavely bodies) to set, go below the horizon
- Synonym: байыу (bayïw) (the Sun)
References
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bat-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill