اورلمك

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *örle-.

Verb

اورلمك (örlämäk)

1. (intransitive) to hastely rise
   • 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden Manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:

     اورلشبن صولر طاشيه دكز طولمز

     örläşübän sular daşsa däŋiz dolmaz

     [even] if the rising waters spilled the sea wouldn't fill up

Descendants

• Turkish: örlemek (dialectal)

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “örle-”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 221