dölenmek

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish دولنمك (“to rest”), Old Anatolian Turkish دولنمك (dölenmek),[1][2] ultimately Proto-Turkic *döle-. Cognate with Turkish dölek. Çağbayır[2] considers senses third to sixth to be derived from the preceding.

Verb

dölenmek

  1. to calm down, to get used to quiet down on way (dialect, Ankara, Niğde)
  2. to rest (dialect, Ankara)[3]
  3. to go towards (dialect, Niğde)
  4. to walk around (dialect, İzmir, Muğla)
  5. to disperse regularly (for herd) (dialect, Ankara)
  6. to settle down properly (dialect, Niğde, Adana)

Etymology 2

Cognate with Turkish döletmek (“to fix”) (dialect, Mersin). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

dölenmek

  1. to be fixed (dialect, Ankara, Çankırı, Kırşehir, Kayseri, Niğde)

References
  1. Günay, Nesrin, “Türk dilinde eş anlamlılık ve “Gönül, yürek, kalp” kelimeleri”, in Türkbilig (2015), vol: 29, page: 121-146.
  2. Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dölenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1286
  3. http://yukarikesekoyu.blogspot.com/2010/11/koy-konusmalar.html
  • “dölenmek”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 4, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1969
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