gütmek

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to herd, tend, drive, shepherd, graze
  2. (transitive) to cherish, nourish (a grudge, an ambition, an aim)
  3. (transitive) to manage, administer; to control

Etymology

In summary

From Proto-Turkic *kǖt- (“to wait; to attend; to respect; to graze”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (kǖt-), [script needed] (küd-, “to wait, watch, graze”), Kazakh күту (kütu, “to wait”), Kyrgyz күтүү (kütüü, “to wait; to tend to (cattle)”), Azerbaijani güdmək (“to graze”), Bashkir көтөү (kötöw, “to wait, graze”), Yakut күүт (küüt, “to wait”) / көһүт (köhüt, “to wait”), etc.

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