𐱅𐰇𐱁𐰤-

töşän-

Meaning:
to spread out for oneself; to be spread out

Word family

Formed from 𐱅𐰇𐱁𐰀- [töşä-] “to spread out, lay out” 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 düşen-
Turkish (Azerbaijan) döşən-
Turkish (Türkiye) döşen-
Salar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Gagauz döşen-
Crimean The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uyghur The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Uzbek töşan-
Kazakh tösen-
Nogai The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Siberian Tatar The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kyrgyz töşön-
Altai töžön-
Alan The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Kumyk The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Tatar tüşän-
Bashkir tüşän-
Tıva döžen-
Khakas The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Khalaj The cognate has disappeared from this language.
Chuvash The cognate has disappeared from this language.

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Translations

German:
für sich ausbreiten; ausgebreitet werden
Russian:
расстилать для себя; расстилаться
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
döşənmək
Turkish (Türkiye):
döşenmek

  • Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen: Altuigurisch – Deutsch – Türkisch | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğü: Eski Uygurca – Almanca – Türkçe p. 746
    töšän- ausgebreitet werden, für sich ausbreiten, sich ausbreiten || örtülmek, açılmak, yayılmak, serilmek, döşenmek
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 565b
    D töşne:k (d-) Dev. N. (Conc. N.) fr. töşen- (abbreviated); ‘a place where bedding is laid out’. N.o.a.b. Türkü VIII ff. turñya: kuş töşne:ki:ŋe: konmi:ş ‘a crane alighted on its resting-place’ IrkB 61: Xak. XI KB negü aşğı āxir kara yér koyı anıŋ töşneki ol yağız yér oyı ‘what is the use of it? The end is the bosom of the black earth; his resting place is a hole in the brown earth’ 3570.
  • Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 565b
    D töşen- (d-) Refl. f. of töşe:-; s.i.m.m.l.g., usually with a Pass. sense; SW Az., Osm. döşen- (Tkm. düşen- seems a recent form, it was earlier döşen-). Xak. XI ol ö:ziŋe: töşe:k töşendi: ‘the man made it his business to spread out a mattress (faraşa’l-firāş) for himself’ Kaş. II 147 (töşe:nür (sic), töşenme:k): KB (in spring plains, mountains, high ground, and valleys) töşendi yadıp ‘have spread out (greenery) and made themselves a mattress of it’ 69; tirig ölgü āxir töşengü yérig ‘living beings will die, and at the last make their beds in the ground’ 237; o.o. 1383, 1426: Xwar. XIV töşen- ditto Qutb 185.