yetmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یتمك (yetmek), from Proto-Turkic *yẹt- (to reach).[1][2]

Verb

yetmek (third-person singular simple present yeter)

  1. (intransitive) to suffice
  2. (intransitive) to do enough; to fulfill.
  3. (with dative) to reach

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yetmek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*ǯi ( ~ *ǯi̯a)”

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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