-daş

See also: daş and Appendix:Variations of "das"

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ـداش, from Proto-Turkic *-daĺ. Contraction of locative suffix -da/-de and “companion”.[1]

Suffix

-daş

  1. A noun-forming suffix frequently denoting a "fellow of", "having in common", "sharing".

Derived terms

  • gönüldeş
  • gönültaş
  • ırkdaş
  • kafadaş
  • karındaş (likely modern kardeş)
  • renktaş

References

  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (2002) “The Suffixes in Pre-Eighth Century Turkish”, in Studies in Turkic and Mongolic Linguistics, 2nd edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, →ISBN, page 92