alçaltı
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish آلچالمق (alçalmaḳ, “to become low, to stoop, to degrade one's self”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish آلچامق (alçamaḳ, “to treat as vile, to become low”), either from Proto-Turkic *aĺak (“foot of a mountain, low, below”)[2] or from alt (“bottom, base”) combined with the suffix -sa, where the /ts/ sound undergoes a phonetic change and turns into /t͡ʃ/,[3] from Proto-Turkic *ăl (“lower side, below, being below, lower”),[4] morphologically alça- + -l- + -tı.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alçaltı (definite accusative alçaltıyı, plural alçaltılar)
- Area of land with low elevation, low ground, depression, sinkage.
- (figuratively, uncommon) The act of humiliating, holding in contempt.
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آلچالمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 184
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “alçak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ YILDIZ, Hüseyin. "Türkçe alçak Kelimesinin Etimolojisi Üzerine." Words and Dictionaries. A Festschrift for Professor Stanisław Stachowski on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday. ed. E. Mańczak-Wohlfeld, B. Podolak. Wydawnictwo UJ, Krakow 2015: 379-396.
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ăl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- “alçaltı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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