وینچ

Ottoman Turkish

وینچ

Etymology

Borrowed from English winch, from Middle English wynche, from Old English winċe, from Proto-Germanic *winkijǭ, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”).

Noun

وینچ • (vinç)

1. crane, a mechanical lifting machine

Descendants

• Turkish: vinç

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vinç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5125
• Kerestedjian, Bedros (1912) “vintch”, in Kerest Haig, editor, Quelques matériaux pour un dictionnaire étymologique de la langue Turque (in French), London: Luzac & Co., page 355