enikonu
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- enem konam (colloquial)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اڭی قونی (eñi ḳonu)[1][2][3] from اڭ (eñ, “width”), from Proto-Turkic *ēn (“breadth, width”),[4] from *ēn- (“to go down, to descend”),[5][6] deteriorated from ineyim (1st P. Sg. optative inflection of inmek (“to descend”)) + konayım (1st P. Sg. optative inflection of konmak (“to perch, to alight”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]enikonu
- (idiomatic) at length, thoroughly, in detail
- Synonyms: enine boyuna, iyiden iyiye, iyice, oldukça, etraflıca, adamakıllı
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اڭی قونی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 26
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اڭی قونی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 125
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “اڭی قونی”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 143
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ēn”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*ēn-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “en²”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “enikonu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “enikonu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1452