یایق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yayuk (shaking, unstable, fickle; churn), a development of *yay- (to shake, churn).[1]

Noun

یایق • (yayık) (definite accusative یایغی (yayığı), plural یایقلر (yayıklar))

  1. churn, a vessel used for churning, especially for converting cream into butter
  • یایمق (yaymak, to spread, stretch out; to churn)
  • ییقامق (yıkamak, to wash, rinse; to bathe)

Descendants

  • Turkish: yayık

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yayığ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 981

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