ایكن

See also: ايکن

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ẹ̄rken (“while”), a derivation from *ẹ̄r- (“to be”).

Conjunction

اِیكَنْ (ikän)

1. while, whilst, during

Related terms

• اِرْكَنْ (erkän)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: ikən, -kən, -kan
• Gagauz: -kenä, -kana
• Ottoman Turkish: ایكن (iken)
  • Turkish: iken, -ken, -kan

Further reading

• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “erkän”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 71
• XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎^[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977, page 256

Ottoman Turkish

Adverb

ایكن • (iken)

1. while, whilst

Descendants

• Turkish: iken
• → Armenian: իքեն (ikʻen)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایكن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 221
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایكن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 301