𐱅𐰃
Old Turkic
Etymology 1
From Proto-Turkic *dē- (“to say”). Cognate to Karakhanid [script needed] (tḗmēk, “to say”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (te-, “to say”), Kyrgyz дөө (döö, “to say”), Turkish demek (“to say”), Turkmen diýmek (“to say”), Yakut диэ (die, “to say”).
Verb
𐱅𐰃 (té-)
- to say
Related terms
- 𐱅𐰃𐰯 (tép)
- 𐱅𐰃𐰘𐰤 (téyin)
See also
- 𐰾𐰇𐰕𐰠𐱁 (sözleš-, “to speak (to each other)”)
Suffix
𐱅𐰃 (-ti)
- Used to form adverbs from adjectives
𐰓𐰏𐰇𐱅𐰃
- edgüti
- well, thoroughly
Etymology 3
From Proto-Turkic *-ti, compare Turkish -ti (“past tense suffix”).
Suffix
𐱅𐰃 (-ti)
- Used to form past tenses of verbs
References
- Clauson, Gerard (1972), “té:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 433
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*dē-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill