çiinemää
Appearance
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čayna- (“to chew; to trample”), the same root of Azerbaijani çeynɘmɘk and Turkish çiğnemek[1].
Verb
[edit]çiinemää
- (transitive) to trample, tread on, stomp
References
[edit]- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007