tükenmek

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish توكنمك (tükenmek, to come to an end, to be totally consumed), from Old Anatolian Turkish (düken-), reflexive of Proto-Turkic *tüke- (to come to an end).[1] Related to Proto-Mongolic *tögüs- (to come to an end), hence Mongolian төгсөх (tögsöx, to come to an end), perhaps from language contact.[2]

Cognate with Old Turkic (tüke-, to come to an end), Azerbaijani tükənmək (to end), Kyrgyz түгөнүү (tügönüü), Southern Altai тӱгенер (tügener), Turkmen tükenmek (to be finished), Uzbek tugamoq (to end).

Verb

tükenmek (third-person singular simple present tükenir)

  1. (intransitive) to be exhausted
  2. (intransitive) to be consumed away, be used up, run out
  3. (intransitive) to die out

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References

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