boyut
Turkish
Etymology
Coined by Turkish founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk[1]. Phono-semantic matching of Arabic بُعْد (buʕd), which it displaced, morphologically boy (“length, size”) + -ut[2], from Proto-Turkic *bod (“body, stature, length”)[3].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈjut/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bo‧yut
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 114
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “boyut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bod”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
- boyut in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “boyut”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 666
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