çiğnemek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چیكنه‌مك[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *čayna- (to chew).[3]

Verb

çiğnemek (third-person singular simple present çiğner)

  1. to chew
  2. to trample; to tread on

Conjugation

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), چیكنه‌مك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 747
  2. Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  3. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *čAj-na-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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