өркөү
Appearance
Bashkir
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Turkic *ürk- (“to be afraid”).[1]
Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (ürk-, “to startle (of sheep)”);[2] Kyrgyz үркүү (ürküü, “to be frightened of”), Southern Altai ӱркӱӱр (ürküür), Uzbek hurkmoq, Uyghur ئۈركىمەك (ürkimek), Turkish ürkmek.
Verb
[edit]өркөү • (örköw) (intransitive)
- to startle, to flee away with fear (of animals)
References
[edit]- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ürk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 626