𐰴𐰆𐰣-

kon-

Meaning:
to settle, to settle down

Word family

Formed from *𐰴𐰆- [*ko-] “#{lexeme.meaning.unattested}” using -(ı)n⁴ (reflexive). The reflexivity suffix -(ı)n4 usually shows that the subject does something to itself, for itself, or by itself. It does so by turning a transitive verb into an intransitive one.

In modern languages

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Language Cognate
Turkmen gon-
Turkish (Azerbaijan) qon-
Turkish (Türkiye) kon-
Salar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Gagauz No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Crimean No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uyghur No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Uzbek No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kazakh No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Nogai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Siberian Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kyrgyz kon-
Altai No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Alan No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Kumyk No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tatar No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Bashkir No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Tıva No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khakas No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Khalaj No cognate has been entered for this language yet.
Chuvash No cognate has been entered for this language yet.

Examples

Irıq Bitig
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Translations

Turkish (Azerbaijan):
qonmaq
Turkish (Türkiye):
konmak

  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 632
    D ko:n- Refl. f. of *ko:-, cf. ko:d-; (of a bird) ‘to settle’; (of people) ‘to stop’ (for the night on a journey), ‘to settle down (somewhere for an indefinite period). S.i.a.m.l.g., with various extended meanings; in some languages used as an Aux. V. Türkü viii (I myself) Ötüken yeri:g konmış ‘settled down in the Ötüken country’ T 17; o.o. I S 5, II N 4 (yağ:); I S 6, II N 5 (çoğay); II E 40: viii ff. (a falcon) kaya:ka: konu:pan ‘settling on a rock’ IrkB 64; a.o. do. 61 (töşne:k): Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. kuş kuzğun konsa ‘if the birds and ravens settle’ (on the trees) PP 80, 4; a.o. do. 6; nirvanlığ konuklukta konar ‘he will settle in the resting place of nirvana’ Pfahl. 8, 8-9: Civ. (the swan has flown away and) köliŋe konmaz ‘does not settle on its lake’ TT I 215-216: Xak. xi kuş ko:ndı: ‘the bird settled’ (waqa‘a) on something, and one says bodu:n ko:ndı: ‘the tribe settled down after being nomadic’ (nazalat . . . ba‘da’l-ẓa‘n) Kaş. III 184 (ko:na:r, ko:nma:k); o.o. (of birds) I 319, 18; II 331, 22: xiii(?) At. (birds) kanka konar ham kafaska kirür ‘settle on the (fowler’s) wrist and enter the cage’ 460: xiv Rbğ. kon- (of a bird or fly) ‘to settle’ R II 532 (quotns.); Muh. nazala mina’l-raḥīl ‘to settle down after a migration’ ko:n- Mel. 32, 12-17; Rif. 117; a.o.o.: Çağ. xv ff. kon- nişastan wa manzil kardan ‘to settle down, to alight at an inn’ San. 290v. 11 (quotns.): Xwar. xiii kon- ‘to settle down’ ‘Ali 30: xiv ditto Qutb 139; MN 242: Kom. xiv ditto CCG; Gr. 199 (quotns.): Kıp. xiii sakana min sakni’l-bayt ‘to take up residence in a house’ kon- Hou. 37, 17: xiv kon- nazala İd. 75; nazala mina’l-manzil kon- Bul. 83r.: xv ḍaraba’l-xayma ‘to pitch a tent’ kon- Tuh. 67b. 6; bāta ‘to spend the night’ kon- do. 69a. 1: Osm. xiv ff. kon- (of a traveller) ‘to stop for the night’; c.i.a.p. TTS I 480; III 472; IV 536.