башлау

Bashkir

Etymology

From *bašla- (“to begin sth.”), from Proto-Turkic *baĺč (“head; beginning”).

Note that postulation of Proto-Turkic *baĺč-la- (“to begin”) is problematic, as no derivatives are attested in Orkhon Turkic, Yakut, Tuva or Tofalar. The Chuvash verb may have formed in contact and by analogy with the Kypchak languages.

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (bašla-, “to begin”);^[1] Uzbek boshlamoq, Uyghur باشلىماق (bashlimaq), Kumyk башламакъ (başlamaq), Azerbaijani başlamaq, Turkish başlamak, Chuvash пуҫла (puśla, “to begin”), etc. See баштау (baştaw) for more cognates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɑʂ.ɫɑ-]

Verb

башлау • (başlaw)

1. (intransitive) to begin (sth., to do sth.)

   Ниңә иртәрәк килмәнегеҙ, фәлән-төгән тип һуҡрана башланы.

   Niñə irtərək kilmənegeź, fələn-tögən tip huqrana başlanı.

   (He) started to grumble: "Why didn't you come earlier" and so on and so forth.

2. (transitive) to initiate, launch

Alternative forms

• баштау (baştaw) (Eastern Bashkir)

References

1. Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 88