ikişer

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ایكیشر (ikişer).[1] By surface analysis, iki (“two”) +‎ -şer (distributive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iciˈʃær/

Adverb

ikişer

  1. distributive of iki (two each)
    1940 August 27, Kenan Hulûsi, “Deniz kenarında [By the seashore]”, in Vakit, page 5:
    Yağmur daneleri masaların üzerine birer ikişer düşer […]
    Raindrops fall onto the tables in ones and twos

References

  1. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایكیشر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 222b
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