قیو

Ottoman Turkish

قیو

Alternative forms

• قویو (kuyu), قویی (kuyi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kudug (“well”); cognate with Azerbaijani quyu, Bashkir ҡоҙоҡ (qoźoq), Kazakh құдық (qūdyq), Kyrgyz кудук (kuduk), Tatar кое (qoye), Turkmen guýy, Uyghur قۇدۇق (quduq), Uzbek quduq and Yakut кудук (kuduk).

Noun

قیو • (kuyu)

1. well, a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water or other fluids

   Synonyms: بیر (bir), چاه (çah)

2. shaft, pit, a vertical passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine

Derived terms

• زنجیرلو قیو (zincirli kuyu, “well worked by a well-sweep and chain”)
• قار قیوسی (kar kuyusu, “snowpit”)
• قیو صویی (kuyu suyu, “hard water”)
• قیو قازمق (kuyu kazmak, “to work against someone”)
• قیو كناری (kuyu kenarı, “stone forming the edge of a well”)
• قیو گبی (kuyu gibi, “gloomy, dark”)
• قیوجق (kuyucuk, “little well or pit”)
• قیوجی (kuyucu, “well-digger”)
• كیرچ قیوسی (kireç kuyusu, “pit into which lime is run”)
• لغم قیوسی (lağım kuyusu, “sinkhole to a sewer”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kuyu
• → Abkhaz: акәыи (akʷʼəj)
• → Laz: კუჲი (ǩuyi), კუი (ǩui) — alternative spelling; ქუჲი (kuyi), ქუი (kui) — Atina, Arkabi

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuyu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2875
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قویی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 379a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 994
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Puteus”, 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 1412
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قویی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3812
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuyu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1510