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elken

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Gagauz

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish یَلْكَنْ (yelkän), from Proto-Turkic *yelken (“sail”);[1][2] compare Azerbaijani yelkən and Turkish yelken.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /jelˈcen/
  • Hyphenation: yel‧ken

Noun

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elken (definite accusative elkeni, plural elkennär)

  1. (nautical) sail

Declension

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declension of elken
singular (tekil) plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın) elken elkennär
definite accusative (belirtme) elkeni elkenneri
dative (yönelme) elkenä elkennerä
locative (bulunma) elkendä elkennerdä
ablative (çıkma) elkendän elkennerdän
genitive (tamlayan) elkenin elkennerin

References

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  1. ^ András Rajki, A Concise Gagauz Dictionary with etymologies and Turkish, Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar and Turkmen cognates, 2007
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yelken”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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  • N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “елкен”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 175
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