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/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: bo‧yut

Noun

boyut (definite accusative boyutu, plural boyutlar)

  1. dimension

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

  1. Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 114
  2. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), boyut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  3. 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

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