kamçı
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قامچی (qamçı, “whip”), from Proto-Turkic *kamčï (“whip”), a derivation from *kam- (“to beat, strike down”). Cognate with Karakhanid قَمْجٖى (qamčï̄, “whip”), قَمّاقْ (qammāq, “to beat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kamçı (definite accusative kamçıyı, plural kamçılar)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kamçı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 626