yalamaa
Appearance
Gagauz
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yālga- (“to lick”), the same root of Azerbaijani yalamaq and Turkish yalamak.[1]
Verb
[edit]yalamaa
- (transitive) to lick, lick up
References
[edit]- ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007