𐰢-
äm-
Meaning:
to suck (breast of women or animals)
Word family
In modern languages (20 / 22)
Select a region to see the cognate.
| Language | Cognate |
|---|---|
| Turkmen | em- |
| Turkish (Azerbaijan) | əm- |
| Turkish (Türkiye) | em- |
| Salar | em- |
| Gagauz | em- |
| Crimean | em- |
| Uyghur | em- |
| Uzbek | em- |
| Kazakh | em- |
| Nogai | em- |
| Siberian Tatar | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Kyrgyz | em- |
| Altai | em- |
| Alan | em- |
| Kumyk | No cognate has been entered for this language yet. |
| Tatar | im- |
| Bashkir | im- |
| Tıva | em- |
| Khakas | em- |
| Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) | em- |
| Khalaj | əm- |
| Chuvash | ĕm- |
Examples
Translations
German:
saugen
Kazakh:
emw
Kyrgyz:
emüü
Russian:
сосать (грудь женщины или животного)
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
əmmək
Turkish (Türkiye):
emmek
Turkmen:
emmek
Uzbek:
emmoq
Bibliography 5
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicp. 55a–bp. 55a–b
äm= ‘to suck’ (g.) / em= (QT₂, QT₅, QA, XŠ, TZ); süt emmiš qarïndaš ‘foster-brother’ (QA) | ämgü ‘foster-mother’ (QT₃ ar. مَراضِع-pl.) | ämčäk ‘nipple, female breast’ (g.) / emčäk (QA, CCa, TZ); ämčäk üti ‘aperture in nipple’ (IMa) | ämüg ‘female breast, nipple’ (QAt) / emüg (QAb,ba,t, NF) / ämig | ämügdäš ‘foster-brother’ (QAt, XŠ) / emügdäš (QA) / ämigdäš (TZ-misspelt with -l-, KD); süt emügdäšiñ ‘your foster-brother’ (QA) | ämdür= ‘to give suck’ (MAv, NF, QT₄, AH) / emdür= (QT₅) | ämdürül= ‘to be given suck’ (MAv) | ämgiz= ‘to give suck’ (IMb) | ämüz= ‘to give suck’ (QT₁–₃, KA, MO) / ämiz= (IMa) / emiz= (TZ 55r8) | ämüzgän ‘foster-mother’ (QT₁) | ämzük ‘feeding bottle’ (MG) | ämzülük ‘nipple’ (MAv) (< *äm-züglük) | ämzür= ‘to give suck’ (IM, NF, AH, KT) | emzirči ‘foster-mother’ (TZ) (< *ämzirgüči) -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 104ap. 104a
äm- saugen || emmek -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagespp. 505–506pp. 505–506
*emV ( ~ *ami) to suck: Mong. *em-kü-; Turk. *em-.
PMong. *em-kü- to swallow, bite, chew (глотать, кусать, жевать): MMong. emgu-gu / omgu-gu 3 (SH); WMong. emkü- (L 313); Kh. ömxö-; Bur. ümxe-; Kalm. ümkə-; Ord. uŋku ‘bouchée’; Dag. unku-, umku-, enku- (Тод. Даг. 140); Mongr. uŋkwā ‘bouchée’ (SM 475); xaŋgu- (SM 157).
◊ KW 457.
PTurk. *em-ig, *em-ček 1 breast (fem.) 2 to suck 3 nipple (1 грудь (жен.) 2 сосать 3 сосок): OTurk. emig 1 (OUygh.); Karakh. ẹm- 2 (MK), ẹmig 1 (MK); Tur. em- 2, emǯik 1; Az. ämǯäk 3; Turkm. em- 2, emǯek 1; Khal. äm- 2; MTurk. ẹm- 2 (Pav. C.), emček 1 (Abush.); Uzb. emčak 1; Uygh. äm- 2, ämčäk 1; Tat. im- 2, imčɛk 1; Bashk. imsäk 1; Kirgh. emček 1; KKalp. emšek 1; Nogh. emšek 1; SUygh. emɨɣ 1; Khak. em- 2, imǯek 1; Tv. em- 2, emig 1; Tof. em- 2, emij ‘udder’; Chuv. əʷm- 2; Yak. em- 2, emīj 1; Dolg. emij 1.
◊ VEWT 41-2, EDT 158-9, ЭСТЯ 1, 271-272, Егоров 63, Лексика 273-274, Stachowski 45. PT *em-ig and *em-ček (the latter form is first attested in the 13th c.) are derived from *em- ‘to suck’.
‖ A Turko-Mongolian isogloss. One is tempted to suppose lost *p῾- and to unite this root with TM *pemu-, Jpn. *pàm- (see *pèma). This is, however, hardly possible, because both Middle Mongolian and Dagur have 0- here (while Mongor x- can easily be secondary in front of a voiceless stop). A possible solution would be a loss of *h- ( < *p῾-) in Proto-Mongolian (or even Proto-Turko-Mongolian) under the influence of a phonetically close “nursery” word, *ĕ̀me ‘mother, female’ q.v. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 155bp. 155b
em- ‘to suck’; originally prob. only of an infant, later more generally. S.i.a.m.l.g. Xak. xi kenç ana:sın emdi: raḍaʿa’l-ṣabi ummahu ‘the infant sucked its mother’s breast’ (raḍaʿa is specifically ‘to suck the breast’); also used of any animal when it sucks the breast Kaş. I 169 (eme:r, emme:k): xiii(?) Tef. ém- ‘to suck the breast’ 76: xiv Rbğ. ém- ditto R I 945 (quotn.): xiv Muh. raḍaʿa ém- Mel. 26, 9; Rif. 109; al-raḍāʿ emmak (sic, in error) 34, 12; 120; maṣṣa ‘to suck, suck up’ em- 41, 11; 132: Çağ. xv ff. émgen süd emen yaʿni şīr-xwāra ‘sucking milk’ Vel. 79 (quotn.); ém- makīdan ‘to suck’ San. 113r. 22 (quotn.): Xwar. xiv ém- ditto Qutb 50: Kip. xiii em- raḍaʿa Hou. 36, 12: xiv ditto Id. 23: xv raḍaʿa ém- Tuh. 17b. 6. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenpp. 41b–42app. 41b–42a
uig. äm, im ’saugen’, mtü. usw. äm, kaz. im, čuv. əm, öm (< *üm); Fakt. äm-it, äm-giz, äm-iz; uig. (Gab.) äm-ig, im-ig ’Brüste’, mtü. ämik, soj. ämig ’Brustwarze’, s-uig. em-yγ ’грудь’, koib. em-äj, jak. ämi ’титька’; šor. öm-čä, üm-čä ’Saugflasche für Kinder’; l-n. äm-čǡk, kmk. em-čǡk ’Mutterbrust’, kaz. im-čäk, jak. ämsäχ, ämisäχ, äminjäk; soj. em-is-kik ’рожок’; tel. um-čy, kč. umdja ’Saughorn’
~mo. (KWb. 457) em-kü, üm-kü ’einschlürfen, verschlingen’
~tu.: sol. imi ’trinken’, bargu. um, ma. omi
~finn. ime- usw. (Sauv. 125; UAW 41; Coll., Jukag. u. Ural. 77)
