یینی

Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

  • یكنی (yegni), یكول (yeŋül), یكلی (yeŋli), اکیل (iŋil).

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yeŋil.

cognates

Cognate with Turkmen yeňil, Crimean Tatar and Uzbek yengil, Uyghur يەڭگىل (yenggil), Bashkir еңел (yeñel), Tatar җиңел (ciñel), Kazakh жеңіл (jeñıl), Kyrgyz жеңил (jeŋil).

Adjective

یینی • (yeyni) (comparative یینیرك (yeynirek))

  1. light, having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
    Synonyms: یوكل (yüŋül), آكول (aŋul), سبك (sebük), خفیف (ḫefīf)
    Antonyms: آغیر (aġır), آغرق (aġruq)
  2. unimportant, insignificant

Derived terms

  • یینی ایلمك (yeyni eylemek, “to underestimate”)
  • یینی باشلو (yeyni başlu)
  • یینی دوتمق (yeyni dutmaq, “to underestimate”)
  • یینی كورمك (yeyni görmek, “to underestimate”)
  • یینیجك (yeynicek, “lightly”)
  • یینیسمك (yeynisemek, “to percieve as light”)
  • یینیمك (yeynimek, “to become light”)

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: yeyin (“fast, quickly”)
    • → Khalaj: yeyin (“fast, quickly”)
  • Gagauz: ilin
  • Ottoman Turkish: یگنی (yeğni), (Classical) یینی (yeyni), (Early Ottoman) یكول (yeñül)
    • Turkish: yeğni, (dialectal) yenli, (dialectal) yeğnik, (dialectal) yenlik, (dialectal) yenil, (dialectal) yeyni

Further reading

  • Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “751-752”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 752
  • “yeyni”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212)‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1977
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