әйтеү

Bashkir

Etymology

From *ayt- (to say, utter), from Proto-Turkic *ayɨt- (to say; ask),[1] which (as seen in Old Uyghur, Yakut, Chuvash cognates) was originally a causative form of an earlier *āy- (to say, to tell).

Compare to Tatar әйтү (äytü, to say), Kazakh айту (aitu, to say), Kyrgyz айтуу (aytuu, to say), Crimean Tatar aytmaq (to say), Uzbek aytmoq (to say), Uyghur ئېيتماق (ëytmaq, to say), Kumyk айтмакъ (aytmaq, to say), dialectal Khakas айт- (ayt-, to say), айыт- (ayıt-, to sing), Turkish ayıtmak (to say); Old Uyghur [script needed] (ajït-, to have/make/let sb. say),[2] Yakut ыйыт- (ıyıt-, to ask), Chuvash ыйт (yjt, to ask).

Verb

әйтеү • (əytew)

  1. to say, tell
    Атайыңа сәләм әйт!
    Atayıña sələm əyt!
    Say hello to your father!
  2. utter, pronounce
    Ҡәнәғәт түгелһең икән — үҙ һүҙеңде әйт, тәңҡитлә, фекер алыш.
    Qənəğət tügelheñ ikən — üź hüźeñde əyt, təñqitlə, feker alış.
    If you are not content — (then) voice your opinion (give your comment), criticize, exchange opinions.
    Ауыҙы ни әйткәнде ҡолағы ишетмәй.
    Awıźı ni əytkənde qolağı işetməy.
    (One's) ears do not hear what (his/her) mouth utters.
  3. to let know, notify, communicate

Derived terms

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ạj-ɨt-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 29
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