demää

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Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دِیمَكْ (demäk), from Proto-Turkic *tē-.[1] Cognate to Azerbaijani demək, Turkish demek, Turkmen diýmek, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈmæː/
  • Hyphenation: de‧mää

Verb

demää (third-person singular simple present deyär)

  1. (ditransitive) to say, tell
    var nasıl demää...
    it can be said that...
    • Moldova, anamsın!
      Başka nicä deyärim?
      Bak bän dä oolunum –
      Bir ool Gagauz!
      Moldova, you are my mother!
      How else can I describe it?
      And, look, I am your son,
      A son of Gagauz!
      [2]
  2. (ditransitive) to call, to refer to as
    ona gözäl deerlär
    they call her beautiful
    • 2024 October 25, Ana Sözü, “Saklı sıtma üzä çıktı: națizma kertiindä bulunan ksenofobiya”, in Ana Sözü:
      İnsan hakları için güreşän Leonid OGARÖV bu Anastasiya NİKİTAnın bu yazısına bölä cuvap etti: “Stalin baskılarında ölän insannarı anmak için, siz vagonnarı kasabanın merkezinä koyêrsınız, sora da kimi sä Sibirä kaldırmaklan mı korkudêrsınız? Siz kendinizä “evropalı” mı deersiniz?”
      Leonid Ogaröv, who wrestles for human rights, responded to Anastasiya Nikita's report by saying: "You put vagons at the town center to commemorate the people who died under Stalin's rule, and then you scare someone by threatening to exhile them to Siberia? Do you really call yourselves "europeans"?
  3. (ditransitive) to speak, to talk
    Synonym: sölemää
  4. (transitive, with olmaa, as infinitive) to mean
    bu ne demää?
    what does this mean
    (literally, “what is this to say?”)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “demek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. ^ Onofrey, F. ((Can we date this quote?)) “D. Tanasoglu – Halkının Oolu, Gagauz Literaturanın Temeli, Klasii. (İş Görgüsündän Aaraştırıcılık Proekt Metodu)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) (in Gagauz), pages 93-97

Further reading

  • Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “demää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 26
  • Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “demää”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 52
  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “демää”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 137