sönmek

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سوگنمك (söğünmek), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (söyün-), from Proto-Turkic *sȫn- (to fade, disappear).[1]

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (sön-, to come to an end, disappear, go out of fire), Azerbaijani sönmək (to be extinguished), Bashkir һүнеү (hünew, to fade, go out), Chuvash сӳнме (sünme, to fade, go out), Kazakh сөну (sönw, to fade away, disappear), Turkmen sönmek (to fade), Uzbek soʻnmoq (to fade) and Hungarian szűnik (to stop, cease) a Turkic borrowing. Also compare Mongolian сөнөх (sönöh, to die down), Mongolian шөнө (šönö, night).

Verb

sönmek (third-person singular simple present söner)

  1. (intransitive, for a fire) to die down, go out, burn out
  2. (intransitive, for a light) to fade or go out
  3. (intransitive, for a tire or balloon) to go flat; to deflate, lose air and collapse
  4. (intransitive) to disappear; to come to an end
  5. (intransitive) to diminish, lose its luster, lose its attractiveness; to lose one's vitality; to go into a decline

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • sönme
  • sönüş
  • sönük
  • sönüm
  • sönmüş
  • sönmez
  • söndürmek
  • sönmemek
  • sönememek
  • sönebilmek

See also

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *sȫn-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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