dalamaa
Appearance
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tāla- (“to bite”), the same root of Azerbaijani dalamaq and Turkish dalamak.[1]
Verb
[edit]dalamaa
- (transitive) to bite, to cut with the teeth
References
[edit]- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007