батыу

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Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bat- (to sink).[1]

Cognate with Turkish batmak (to sink, set), Yakut батылын (batılın, to sink), Chuvash пут (put, to sink, drown).

Verb

батыу (batıw) (intransitive)

  1. to sink, submerge
    Ағас һыуға батмай.
    Ağas hıwğa batmay.
    Wood does not sink in water.
  2. to drown
  3. get bogged down
  4. to set, go below the horizon (of heavely bodies)
    Synonym: байыу (bayıw) (the Sun)

References

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