yontmak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یونتمق (yontmak, “to cut and chip, to pare down”), causative of یونمق (yonmak), from Proto-Turkic *yōn- (“to adze, plane”).[1] The causative form took the place of the original verb.

Related to Old Turkic [script needed] (yon-, “to shave, scrape”), Azerbaijani yonmaq (“to hew, shave”) Kyrgyz жонуу (jonuu, “to whittle”), Southern Altai јонор (ǰonor, “to plain, shave, slice”), Uzbek yoʻnmoq.

Verb

yontmak (third-person singular simple present yontar)

  1. (transitive) to shape sth. by cutting it; to chisel; to hew; to whittle; to dress (stone); to sculpt, sculpture
  2. (transitive) to point or sharpen

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References

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