تیون

Ottoman Turkish

تیون

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *tegiŋ (“squirrel”); cognate with Bashkir тейен (teyen), Kazakh тиін (tiın), Kyrgyz: тыйын (tıyın), Tatar тиен (tiyen), Uyghur تىيىن (tiyin), Uzbek tiyin and Yakut тииҥ (tiiñ).

Noun

تیون • (teyun, teyün, teyin)

1. squirrel, a tree-dwelling rodent in the family Sciuridae

   Synonym: سنجاب (sincab)

Derived terms

• قزل تیون (kızıl teyun, “red squirrel”)
• قورشونی تیون (kurşuni teyun, “grey squirrel”)
• قویو تیون (koyu teyun, “dark-grey squirrel”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: değin, deyin, teğin, teyin

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “değin2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1129
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تیون”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 422a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sciurus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 1520
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1510
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تیون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 620