ürkmek

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوركمك (ürkmek), from Proto-Turkic *ürk- (to be afraid).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic (ürk-, to be afraid, run away in fear), Kyrgyz үркүү (ürküü, to be frightened of), Uzbek hurkmoq.

Verb

ürkmek (third-person singular simple present ürker)

  1. (intransitive) to fear, be afraid of, dread, wince
  2. (intransitive) to quail, boggle

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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: “*ṑr(e)kV”