گویگی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• گویگو (güveyü), كویكی (güveyi), كویكو (güveyü)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *küdegü.

Noun

گویگی • (güveyi)

1. son-in-law
2. bridegroom

Descendants

• Gagauz: güvää
• Turkish: güvey, güveyi
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin script: đuvegija

  Cyrillic script: ђувегија

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كویكی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1606