توی

Ottoman Turkish

توی

Alternative forms

• توك (tüğ)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tǖk (“hair, feather”); cognate with Azerbaijani tük (“hair”), Bashkir төк (tök), Chuvash тӗк (tĕk), Kazakh түк (tük), Kyrgyz түк (tük), Turkmen tüý, Uyghur تۈك (tük), Uzbek tuk and Yakut түү (tüü).

Noun

توی • (tüy)

1. body hair, the hair of the body as opposed to facial hair and headhair
2. feather, a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
3. down, the soft, fluffy, immature feathers which grow on young birds
4. quill, the lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs

Coordinate terms

• صاچ (saç, “hair on the head”)
• قیل (kıl, “hair, bristle”)

 

Derived terms

• باش تویی (baş tüyü, “crest feathers”)
• توی توس (tüy tüs, “hair and down”)
• توی دوكمك (tüy dökmek, “to moult”)
• توی قلم (tüy kalem, “quill pen”)
• توی یولمق (tüy yolmak, “to pluck feathers”)
• تویجكز (tüyceğiz, “small or pet hair”)
• تویسز (tüysüz, “hairless; featherless”)
• تویلنمك (tüylenmek, “to become covered with hairs”)
• تویلو (tüylü, “feathered; furry”)
• تویی دوزمك (tüyü düzmek, “to get the coat in good condition”)
• دوه تویی (deve tüyü, “fawn color”)
• صیچان تویی (sıçan tüyü, “mouse color”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tüy
• Gagauz: tüy
• → Armenian: թո̈ւյ (tʻüy)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüy1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4952
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “توی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 171b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pilus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1301
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “توی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 1481–1482
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tüy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “توی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614