تویسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From توی (tüy, “body hair; feather”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, -süz, “-less”).

Adjective

تویسز • (tüysüz)

1. hairless, glabrous, destitute of hair
2. featherless, apteric, having no feathers

Derived terms

• تویسز شفتالو (tüysüz şeftali, “nectarine”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tüysüz
• → Armenian: թո̈ւյսո̈ւզ (tʻüysüz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüysüz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4954
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تویسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تویسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 615