kekelemek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ككه (keke, a bird's beak, one who stutters over the letter "ke;" onomatopoeic)[1], morphologically keke + -le + -mek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ce.ce.leˈmec/
  • Hyphenation: ke‧ke‧le‧mek

Verb

kekelemek (third-person singular simple present kekeler)

  1. (intransitive) To stutter, to stammer, especially on palatal sounds.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To get what one was going to say mixed-up due to nervousness.

Conjugation

  • kekeç
  • kekeme
  • kekemen

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), ككه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 324

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