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Noun

ötmek

1. bread

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *öt-. Compare Turkish ötmek below.

Verb

ötmek

1. to sing (only about birds!)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوتمك ‎(ütmek, “to resound, ring, echo, to sing; crow”), from Proto-Turkic *öt- ‎(“to sing (of birds), say, ask”), which, according to the controversial Altaic hypothesis, is possibly derived from Proto-Altaic *ŏ́t`è ‎(“sound”).^[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] ‎(öt-, “(of animals) to sing, make noise”), [script needed] ‎(ötün-, “to ask, request”), Chagatai [script needed] ‎(ötmek, “to say”), Chuvash авăтма ‎(avătma, “to sing”), Turkmen ötünmek ‎(“to apologise”), Yakut эт ‎(et, “to say”).

Verb

ötmek ‎(third-person singular simple present öter)

1. (intransitive) (for a bird) to sing; (for a cock) to crow

   Bir çöplükte iki horoz ötmez.‎ ― Two roosters won't crow in the same dump. (A similar proverb to “If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind.”)

2. (intransitive) (for a horn, a whistle) to blow, toot, hoot
3. (intransitive) to chatter noisily, gab, babble
4. (transitive, slang) to let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also

• şakımak

References

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