el gün

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From el + dialectal gün (“foreign people”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēl (“realm, people”) and *kün (“foreign people”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (elgün), Karakhanid [script needed] (el kün), etc.^[1]

Noun edit

el gün

strangers
Bizi ele güne karşı rezil etme
Do not embarrass us in front of strangers

Related terms edit

el
gün

References edit

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

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “el gün”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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

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