Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Anatolian Turkish كچوك (kiçük, small, little), from Proto-Turkic *kičük, *kičüg (small, little).[1][2]

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰲𐰏 (kičig), Karakhanid [script needed] (kičüg), Kazakh кіші (kışı), кішкене (kışkene), Uyghur كىچىك (kichik), Kyrgyz кичинекей (kicinekey), Shor кичиг (kiçig), Yakut куччугуй (kuccuguy), etc.

Adjective edit

كوچوك (küçük)

  1. small, little

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References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kičük/-g”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “küçük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük