sözüm ona
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish سوزم اوكا (sözüm oña, “present company excepted”),[1] from سوز (söz),[2] equivalent to söz (“phrase, saying”) + o (3rd P. Sg. pronoun) + -(n)a (dative suffix with "n" as buffer consonant), literally “my phrase is directed at them, I'm referring to them”.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “سوزم اوكا”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 746
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “söz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “sözüm ona”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sözüm ona”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4326