چیوی

Ottoman Turkish

چیوی

Alternative forms

• چوی (çivi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *čib (“nail, peg”); cognate with Azerbaijani çiv, Bashkir сөй (söy), Karachay-Balkar чюй (çüy), Kumyk чюй (çüy), Turkmen çüý and Uzbek chuv.

Noun

چیوی • (çivi)

1. peg, treenail, a cylindrical, wooden object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects

   Synonym: وتد (veted)

2. nail, a spike-shaped metal fastener with a sharp point used for joining wood or similar materials

   Synonyms: مسمار (mismar), میخ (mıh)

3. rivet, a permanent, cylindrical, mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together

   Synonym: پرچین (perçin)

Derived terms

• چیویجی (çivici, “nailer”)
• چیویلتمك (çiviletmek, “to make or let be nailed”)
• چیویلشمك (çivileşmek, “to assume the form of a nail”)
• چیویلمك (çivilemek, “to peg, nail”)
• چیویلنمك (çivilenmek, “to be pegged or nailed”)

Descendants

• Turkish: çivi
• → Albanian: çivi
• → Aromanian: civii, civie, tsivii
• → Bulgarian: чиви́я (čivíja)
• → Macedonian: чивија (čivija)
• → Romanian: civie
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin script: čìvija
  • Cyrillic script: чѝвија

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çivi1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1015
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “چوی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 180a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “چیوی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 490
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Clavus”, 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 190
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “چوی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1686
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 47
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “çivi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[5], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 111
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “چیوی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 748