evvelce
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اولجه (evvelce),[1][2] from اول, equivalent to evvel (“before, first, earlier”) + -ce. Cognates with Azerbaijani əvvəlcə.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]evvelce
- before, formerly, once in the past
- Synonyms: evvelden, önceden, eskiden, vaktiyle, bir zamanlar, bir vakitler, vaktizamanında
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 266
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 200
Further reading
[edit]- “evvelce”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “evvelce”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1524