sekmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سكمك (sekmek, to hop, hobble along, ricochet), from Proto-Turkic *sēk- (to jump).[1]

Cognate with Azerbaijani səkmək (to hop), Chuvash сикме (sikme, to jump). Compare Hungarian szökik (to hop).

Verb

sekmek (third-person singular simple present seker)

  1. (intransitive) to hop
  2. (intransitive) to skip, jump lightly and quickly
  3. (intransitive) to ricochet; (for a stone) to skip (over water)

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • sekme
  • sekiş
  • seksek
  • sekilmek
  • sektirmek
  • sekmemek
  • sekememek
  • sekebilmek
  • seğirmek

References

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