توی

See also: توي

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Connected to Proto-Turkic *toy (“feast, wedding, gathering”) by Clauson et al. However, the reflexives in other languages suggest a short vowel variant, including in Oghuz languages such as Turkmen toý, طوی.

In Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (1072), Maḫmud al-Ḳašġarî writes down that [the] Oghuz people do not know this [word.] This may be the case due to Oghuz branch not preserving the primary sense of military camp, which is what the Karakhanid word translates to in Arabic.

Noun

تُویْ (tōy)

1. military camp

Derived terms

• خَانْ تُویْ (xān tōy, “place where the Kaghan founds an army”)

Descendants

• Chagatai: توی (toy), طوی (ṭoy)
  • Uyghur: توي (toy)
  • Uzbek: toʻy

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 141
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 566-567

Etymology 2

Unknown. Only identified cognate is 𐾀𐽳𐽶 (twy /⁠toy⁠/, “loam”).

May be related to etymology above, see *toy (paragraph 4).

Noun

تُویْ (tōy)

1. potter's clay

Derived terms

• تُویْ اَشِجْ (tōy ešič, tōy ašïč, “pot, specifically made out of potter's clay”)

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 141-142
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 566-567

Etymology 3

May be related to تُوذْ (tōδ) according to Clauson.

Noun

تُویْ (tōy)

1. a medicinal plant

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 141
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 566-567

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

تُویْ (tōy)

1. Alternative form of تُوذْ (tōδ, “great bustard”)

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 141
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “to:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 566-567

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

توی • (toy) (definite accusative تویی (toyı), plural تویلر (toylar))

1. Alternative form of طوی (ṭoy, “great bustard”)

Further reading

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

توی • (tüy) (definite accusative تویی (tüyi), plural تویلر (tüyler))

1. Alternative form of توك (tüg, “hair”)

Further reading

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

توی • (tavı) (definite accusative تویی (tavıyı), plural تویلر (tavılar))

1. Alternative form of تاوه (tāve, “pan”)

Further reading

• Kanar, Mehmet (2018) Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları

Ottoman Turkish

توی

Alternative forms

• توك (tüğ)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish توك (tüg), توی (tüy), from Proto-Turkic *tǖk (“hair, feather”); cognate with Azerbaijani tük (“hair”), Bashkir төк (tök), Chuvash тӗк (tĕk), Kazakh түк (tük), Kyrgyz түк (tük), Turkmen tüý, Uyghur تۈك (tük), Uzbek tuk and Yakut түү (tüü).

Noun

توی • (tüy)

1. body hair, the hair of the body as opposed to facial hair and headhair
2. feather, a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
3. down, the soft, fluffy, immature feathers which grow on young birds
4. quill, the lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs

Coordinate terms

• صاچ (saç, “hair on the head”)
• قیل (kıl, “hair, bristle”)

Derived terms

• باش تویی (baş tüyü, “crest feathers”)
• توی توس (tüy tüs, “hair and down”)
• توی دوكمك (tüy dökmek, “to moult”)
• توی قلم (tüy kalem, “quill pen”)
• توی یولمق (tüy yolmak, “to pluck feathers”)
• تویجكز (tüyceğiz, “small or pet hair”)
• تویسز (tüysüz, “hairless; featherless”)
• تویلنمك (tüylenmek, “to become covered with hairs”)
• تویلو (tüylü, “feathered; furry”)
• تویی دوزمك (tüyü düzmek, “to get the coat in good condition”)
• دوه تویی (deve tüyü, “fawn color”)
• صیچان تویی (sıçan tüyü, “mouse color”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tüy
• → Armenian: թո̈ւյ (tʻüy)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüy1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4952
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 171b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pilus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 1481–1482
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tüy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614