yaymak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یایمق (yaymak, “to spread”), from Proto-Turkic *yād- (“to spread”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (yād-, “to spread”), Kyrgyz жаюу (jayuu, “to spread”), Uzbek yoymoq (“to spread”).

Compare Mongolian задлах (zadlax, “to unleash”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Verb

yaymak (third-person singular simple present yayar)

  1. (transitive) to scatter; to spread
  2. (transitive) to spread, broadcast, disseminate

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References

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