yazım
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From yaz- (“to write”) + -ım. Coined by Turkish writer, poet and literary critic Nurullah Ataç who proposed the sense "text" to to displace metin[1] The word did not gain acceptance with the proposed sense.
Noun edit
yazım (definite accusative yazımı, plural yazımlar)
- orthography, writing, spelling
- Synonym: imla
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 88