Where does “donmuş” come from?
donmuş (Turkish) comes from Turkish -miş, from Ottoman Turkish ـمش, from Old Anatolian Turkish ـمش, from Proto-Turkic *-miĺ — Forms past tense, heard, unseen, unexperienced or otherwise unclear to the speaker.
donmuş (Turkish): frozen
Definitions
- frozen
Ancestry of “donmuş”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | -miş | Suffix creating subject past participles or impersonal perfective participles from verbs |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | ـمش | Evidential suffix, distinguishing reported from observed actions |
| 3 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ـمش | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | *-miĺ | Forms past tense, heard, unseen, unexperienced or otherwise unclear to the speaker |