sezmek

Meaning

to understand (something) intuitively, sense, feel, perceive, discern

Etymology

In summary

# 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”). # Compare Proto-Mongolic *seri- (“to wake, notice”), (Mongolian сэрэх (serex, “to wake up”)). Cognates Cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (séz-, “to feel, know”), [script needed] (sézig, “doubt”), Azerbaijani sezmək (“to notice, perceive”), Bashkir һиҙеү (hiźew, “to feel”), Chagatai [script needed] (sézmek, “to suppose, conjecture”), Kazakh сезу (sezu, “to feel, sense, guess, understand”), Khakas сизерге (sizerge, “to feel, guess, unravel”), Kipchak [Arabic needed] (séz-, “to surmise, conjecture”), Kyrgyz сезүү (sezüü, “to feel, sense”), Southern Altai сезер (sezer, “to guess, understand”), Tatar сизү (sizü, “to feel, perceive”), Turkmen syzmak (“to feel”), Tuvan сезик (sezik, “doubt”), Uyghur سەزمەك (sezmek, “to notice, feel, perceive, see”), Uzbek sezmoq (“to feel, sense, perceive”).

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