güreş
Turkish
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editFrom Proto-Turkic *kerüĺ- (“to fight, to struggle”). Cognate with Kypchak küreş . Further cognates include Tatar көрәш (köräş), Uighur küräš, Azerbaijani güləş, Chuvash kǝreš/кӗреш(ӳ), Tuvan хүреш (xüreş), Kyrgyz күрөш (küröş), Kazakh күрес (küres), Bashkir көрәш (körəş) (etc.).
Equivalent to gür (“strong”) + -eş.
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References
edit- Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish, Oxford, 1972, pp. 747-748.
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “güreş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük