kuytu

Turkish

Etymology

Uncertain. Three possibilities exist:

  • Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠣᠢᠲᠤ (qoitu, “behind; to the north”).[1][2] Compare kuz (“place not under sunlight, shadowed hillside”) and kuzey (“north”) for the semantic parity with "north" <> "secluded".
  • A native Turkic word with sparse attestation, if so, would be cognate with Karakhanid [script needed] (ku:y, “bottom of a valley”), Tuvan куй (kuy, “cave”) and Khakas хуй (xuy, “cave”).[3]
  • Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοїθε (koїthe, “seaside”).[4]

The immediate ancestor is Ottoman Turkish قویتو (koytu).

Adjective

kuytu

  1. dark, quiet and secluded place

References

  1. ^ Sanžejev, G. D., Orlovskaja, M. N., Ševernina, Z. V. (2015–) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mongolʹskix jazykov: v 3 t. [Etymological dictionary of Mongolic languages: in 3 vols.] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 62
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuytu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  3. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “2 ku:y”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 674
  4. ^ Eyuboğlu, İsmet Zeki (1991) “kuytu”, in Türk dilinin etimoloji sözlüğü [Etymological dictionary of the Turkish language] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Sosyal Yayınlar, page 212

Further reading

  • “kuytu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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