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eşkin

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اشكین (eşkin),[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *ẹĺgin (a trot, amble),[3] from *ẹĺ- (to walk, to trot, to amble),[4][5] equivalent to eş- (to go fast on the horse) +‎ -kin. Compare with Karakhanid اَشْكِنْ (eşkin, long way), اَشْكِنْجی (eşkinci, mounted messenger).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /eʃˈcin/
  • Hyphenation: eş‧kin

Noun

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eşkin (definite accusative eşkini, plural eşkinler)

  1. A medium-speed gait of a horse; canter, amble.

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative eşkin
Definite accusative eşkini
Singular Plural
Nominative eşkin eşkinler
Definite accusative eşkini eşkinleri
Dative eşkine eşkinlere
Locative eşkinde eşkinlerde
Ablative eşkinden eşkinlerden
Genitive eşkinin eşkinlerin

Adjective

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eşkin

  1. (of a horse) Moving at such a gait.

Adverb

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eşkin

  1. (of a horse) With such a gait.
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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشكین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 123
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 98
  3. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “1 eşgin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 260
  4. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ẹĺ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  5. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “eşkin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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