ینكج
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yeŋgeç (“crab”);[1] cognate with Azerbaijani yengəc. The derivation from یان (yan, “side”) + the root of the verb كچمك (geçmek, “to pass”) is just folk-etymological, influenced by the sideways walk typical of crabs.
Noun
ینكج • (yengec) (definite accusative ینكجی (yengeci), plural ینكجلر (yengecler))
- crab, any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura having five pair of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws
- Synonym: سرطان (seretan)
Descendants
- Turkish: yengeç
References
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yeŋgeç”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 950
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “ینكج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 887
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yengeç1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5289
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ینكج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 511a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ینكج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1360
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cancer”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 141
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ینكج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 5612
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yengeç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ینكج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2211