چاتاللانمق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From چاتال (çatal, “fork, prong”) +‎ ـلنمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).

Verb

چاتاللانمق • (çatallanmak)

(intransitive) to become forked, or bifurcated

Descendants

Turkish: çatallanmak
→ Armenian: չաթալլանմիշ (čʻatʻallanmiš)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çatallanmak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 898
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چاتاللانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 457

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