suamaa
Appearance
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *sïba- (“to smear”), the same root of Azerbaijani suvamaq and Turkish sıvamak.[1]
Verb
[edit]suamaa
- (transitive) to smear, daub
References
[edit]- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007