دكز
Old Anatolian Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ.
Noun
دَكِزْ • (däŋiz)
- sea
- 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden Manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:
- اورلشبن صولر طاشيه دكز طولمز
- örläşübän sular daşsa däŋiz dolmaz
- [even] if the rising waters spilled the sea wouldn't fill up
Derived terms
- دكز آغزی (däŋiz aġzı, “jellyfish”)
- دكزلر دكزی (däŋizlär däŋizi, “ocean”)
Descendants
- Azerbaijani: dəniz
- Gagauz: deniz
- Ottoman Turkish: دكز (deñiz), دكیز (deñiz), տէնկիզ (dengiz /deñiz/) — Armeno-Turkish
- Turkish: deniz
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deniz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022) “däñiz”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 330
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deniz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1159
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دكیز (deñiz)
- տէնկիզ (dengiz /deñiz/) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دكز (däŋiz), Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ.
Noun
دڭز • (deñiz)
Derived terms
- شاب دكزی (şab deñizi, “Red Sea”, literally “Alum Sea”)
- دكز قویونی (deñiz koyunu, “fur seal”, literally “sea sheep”)
Descendants
- Turkish: deniz
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دكز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
- Redhouse, J. W. (1884) “sea”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 667