boyut
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]boyut (definite accusative boyutu, plural boyutlar)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 114
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “boyut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ 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
Further reading
[edit]- “boyut”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boyut”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 666
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