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Where does “yarmak” come from?

yarmak (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish یارمق, from Proto-Turkic yār-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂er- — to fit, to fix, to put together.

yarmak (Turkish): to split, cleave, rend; slit; to hack, chop; to...

Definitions

  1. to split, cleave, rend; slit; to hack, chop; to...

Ancestry of “yarmak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishیارمقto split, rend
2Proto-Turkicyār-to crack, split; to crack, split, crush; to...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂er-to fit, to fix, to put together

Words derived from “yarmak”

  • yar
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