sezmek

Turkish

Etymology

  1. From Ottoman Turkish سزمك (sezmek, to perceive, discern, make out), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sez-, to feel, perceive; to think, conjecture), from Proto-Turkic *seŕ-, *sēŕ- (to feel, understand).[1]
  2. Compare Proto-Mongolic *seri- (to wake, notice), (Mongolian сэрэх (serex, to wake up)). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

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Verb

sezmek (third-person singular simple present sezer)

  1. (transitive) to understand (something) intuitively, sense, feel, perceive, discern

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • sezdirmek
  • sezebilmek
  • sezememek
  • sezgi
  • sezilmek
  • sezinmek
  • seziş
  • sezme
  • sezmemek

References

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