كوتوك

Ottoman Turkish

كوتوكلر

Etymology

From Greek κώδικος (kódikos, “log, balk”), from Byzantine Greek κῶδιξ (kôdix), ultimately from Latin cōdex (“tree trunk”).

Noun

كوتوك • (kütük)

1. log, any bulky piece cut from a tree, used as timber, fuel, etc.

   Synonym: طومروق (tomruk)

2. block, bulk, a substantial, approximately cuboid, piece of wood

Derived terms

• اسكی كوتوك (eski kütük, “veteran, an experienced man”)
• اورس كوتوكی (örs kütüğü, “anvil block”)
• ایش كوتوكی (iş kütüğü, “work block”)
• باغ كوتوك (bağ kütük, “stock of a grapevine”)
• جهنم كوتوكی (cehennem kütüğü, “a hardened sinner”)
• كوتوك اولمق (kütük olmak, “to become like a log”)
• كوتوك ایتمك (kütük etmek, “to reduce a tree to a log”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kütük
• → Armenian: քիւթիւկ (kʻiwtʻiwk) — Constantinople
• → Macedonian: ќутук (ḱutuk)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kütük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2912
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوتوك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 398b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوتوك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1046
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stipes”, 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 1598
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوتوك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4054
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kütük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوتوك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1582