инеү

Bashkir

Etymology

The only reliable cognate is Kazakh ену (enw, “to enter, go in”). Thus, this is a very peculiar regional feature shared by only these two languages.

Generally thought to derive from Proto-Turkic *ēn- (“to go down”)[1],[2]. However, no adequate explanation has been presented as to how this peculiar semantic transformation ("go down" > "enter") could have taken place, and why only in these two languages but not elsewhere.

Verb

инеү • (inew)

  1. to enter

Synonyms

Antonyms

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) , “*ēn-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) , “и:н-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume 3, Moscow: Nauka, page 353
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