Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish قیت (kıt, scarce, few), from Proto-Turkic *kït (not enough, insufficient).[1]

Cognate with Azerbaijani qıt (scarce), Turkmen gyt (few, scarce), etc.

Adjective edit

kıt

  1. insufficient, not enough
  2. scarce, deficient

Antonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • kıt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kɨt”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill