sunmak

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to offer, present, submit
  2. (transitive) to introduce, represent
  3. (transitive) to perform, play, or sing
  4. to roll out

Frequency

C1
Etymology

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish صونمق (sunmak, “to present”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (sun-, “to hold out, offer, present”), from Proto-Turkic *sūn- (“to stretch, stretch out”). Related to Proto-Mongolic *sunu- (“to stretch out”), (cf. Mongolian сунах (sunax, “to extend, stretch”)) and Proto-Tungusic *sūn- (“to stretch out”) (cf. Evenki сӯн (sūn, “to stretch out”)). Either inherited to all families from a common source (according to the now widely discredited Altaic theory) or contact induced. Cognates Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (sun-, “to stretch out”), Karakhanid [script needed] (sunmāk, “to hold out, offer”), Southern Altai сунар (sunar, “to stretch out”), Bashkir һоноу (honow, “to extend”), Kazakh ұсыну (ūsynu, “to present, offer, stretch”), Khakas сунарға (sunarğa, “to stretch out, extend”), Kyrgyz сунуу (sunuu, “to hold out, stretch, offer”), Tuvan сунар (sunar, “to stretch, hand, present”), Uyghur سۇنماق (sunmaq, “to extend, present, give, offer”), Uzbek sunmoq (“to present, to hand”), Yakut уун (uun, “to stretch, extend, give”).

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