evvelce
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish اولجه (evvelce),[1][2] from اول, equivalent to evvel (“before, first, earlier”) + -ce. Cognates with Azerbaijani əvvəlcə.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editevvelce
- before, formerly, once in the past
- Synonyms: evvelden, önceden, eskiden, vaktiyle, bir zamanlar, bir vakitler, vaktizamanında
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اولجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 266
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اولجه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 200
Further reading
edit- “evvelce”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “evvelce”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1524