قورت آغزی
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From قورت (kurt, “wolf”) + آغز (ağız, “mouth”).
Noun edit
- dovetail, culvertail, a common type of joint used in woodworking joinery
Descendants edit
- Turkish: kurtağzı
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kurtağzı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2851
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “dovetail”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 146b
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قورت آغزی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482