cannanmaa
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, can (“life, soul”) + -nan. Compare Turkish canlanmak.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]cannanmaa (third-person singular simple present cannanar or cannanır)
- (intransitive) to come to life, to be revived
- Synonym: dirilmää
- (intransitive) to be born, to come to life
- Synonym: duumaa
- (intransitive) to get lively
- 2022 March 18, “Bu yıl cenktän dä taa çirkin, kömürdän dä taa kara, pelindän dä taa acı”, in Ana Sözü[1]:
- Benizi boz, nicä topraklan karışık, sansın şindi önümdä görerim, ama idik, cannandık. Ama onnar da bitti, ne yapalım.
- His face is grey, like mixed with dirt, as if i now see him in front of me, but we ate, we got lively. But they too ended, what can we do.
- (intransitive, figurative) to be inspired
Further reading
[edit]- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “cannanmaa”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 40
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “ӝананмаа”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 184