örtmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اورتمك (örtmek, “to cover, wrap, veil, shut”), from Proto-Turkic *ört- (“to cover”).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (ört-, “to cover”), Azerbaijani örtmək (“to cover, shut”), Chuvash витме (vitme, “to cover, protect, close”), Turkmen örtmek (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

örtmek (third-person singular simple present örter)

  1. (transitive) to cover; to veil
  2. (transitive) to hide; to conceal, hush up, cover up
  3. (transitive) to shut (a door, a window, a cover)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • örtme
  • örtüş
  • örtük
  • örtücü
  • örtbas
  • örtülmek
  • örtüşmek
  • örtünmek
  • örttürmek
  • örtmemek
  • örtememek
  • örtebilmek

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ört-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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