Where does “-ekalmak” come from?

-ekalmak (Turkish) comes from Turkish -e, from Proto-Turkic *-ka — Suffix expressing the dative case.

-ekalmak (Turkish): To stay like that without doing anything else

Definitions

  1. To stay like that without doing anything else

Ancestry of “-ekalmak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkish-eto
2Proto-Turkic*-kaSuffix expressing the dative case
Every word from Proto-Turkic *-ka →Every word from Turkish -e →