diremek

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic tire- (to support, upright), from Proto-Turkic *dīre- (to support), possibly from Proto-Altaic *t`ī́ri (to press, make a support)[1].

Verb

diremek (third-person singular simple present direr)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) to put something in vertical position, support
  2. (intransitive) to resist, hold up, persist

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

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