𐱃𐰃𐱃-

tıt-

Meaning:

to tear to pieces, to pull apart into shreds

Details:

tıt- denotes forcibly pulling material apart into small pieces, strips or fibres. It is used of shredding meat or clothing, plucking hair or feathers, and teasing wool or cotton apart, so its semantic range is more specific than that of a general verb “to tear”.

It must be distinguished from the front-vocalic tit- “to renounce, give up”.

Erdal (2004) proposes a long vowel.

Word family

𐱃𐰃𐱃- tıt-
- 𐱃𐰃𐱃𐰃𐰞- tıtıl- tıtıl-
- 𐱃𐰃𐱃𐰃𐰣- tıtın- tıtın-

In modern languages

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Language	Cognate
Turkmen	tüýt
Turkish (Azerbaijan)	did
Turkish (Türkiye)	dit
Salar	-
Gagauz	-
Crimean	-
Uyghur	-
Uzbek	tit
Kazakh	tut
Nogai	-
Siberian Tatar	-
Kyrgyz	tıt
Altai	-
Alan	-
Kumyk	-
Tatar	tet
Bashkir	tet
Tıva	-
Khakas	tıt
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan)	-
Khalaj	-
Chuvash	tat

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Translations

German:

zerreißen; zerzupfen

Russian:

разрывать в клочья; теребить

Turkish (Azerbaijan):

didmək, cırmaq

Turkish (Türkiye):

ditmek

Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 450

tıt- (?d-) ‘to tear to pieces’ and the like. S.i.a.m.l.g. except NW(?); in NE Khak., NC Kir. tıt-; NC Kzx. tüt-; SW Osm. dit-; Tkm. dit-/tüyt-; elsewhere tit-. See Doerfer II 996 and titimlig. Xak. xi ol et tıttı: mazzaqa’l-laḥma’l-muḥarrā ‘he tore the boiled meat to shreds’, also used when one tears a garment to shreds (mazzaqa tamzīqa(n) bāliğa(n)) Kaş. II 292 (tıta:r, tıtma:k): Çağ. xv ff. tit- ‘to tear something to pieces (çīzī pāra pāra kardan) with the hands’; and ‘to separate’ cotton lint, etc. from the seed San. 190r. 1: Kip. xiii natafa ‘to pluck out’ (feathers, hair, etc.) tit(-gil) Hou. 36, 20: xiv did- (‘with back vowels’) ‘to pluck’ (nafaşa) wool, cotton, and the like; Imperat. did İd. 48: xv nasala wa nasara ‘to unravel, pluck out’ (VU) tit- Tuh. 37a. 1 (if with back vowel it would prob. be spelt tıt-).