башлау

Bashkir

Etymology

From *bašla- (“to begin sth.”), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head; beginning”).

Note that postulation of Proto-Turkic *baĺč-la- (“to begin”) is problematic, as no derivatives are attested in Orkhon Turkic, Yakut, Tuva or Tofalar. The Chuvash verb may have formed in contact and by analogy with the Kypchak languages.

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bašla-, “to begin”);[1] Uzbek boshlamoq, Uyghur باشلىماق (bashlimaq), Kumyk башламакъ (başlamaq), Azerbaijani başlamaq, Turkish başlamak, Chuvash пуҫла (puśla, “to begin”), etc. See баштау (baştaw) for more cognates.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bɑʂ.ɫɑ-]

Verb

башлау • (başlaw)

  1. (intransitive) to begin (sth., to do sth.)
    Ниңә иртәрәк килмәнегеҙ, фәлән-төгән тип һуҡрана башланы.
    Niñə irtərək kilmənegeź, fələn-tögən tip huqrana başlanı.
    (He) started to grumble: "Why didn't you come earlier" and so on and so forth.
  2. (transitive) to initiate, launch

Alternative forms

References
  1. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 88
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