Translation
Turk, Turkish person
Word origin
From the Old Turkic self-designation Türk, which reached western Europe through Persian and Byzantine Greek Tourkos and then Medieval Latin Turcus. English turquoise is the same word, the Turkish stone, and so is turkey, a bird misfiled by early traders as coming through Turkish lands.
- Origin
- Old Turkic
- Root
- Türk
- English cognates
- Turk, turquoise, turkey
Examples
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Our neighbour is a Turk and speaks four languages.
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The Turk showed us the old town.
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Many Turks came to the big congress.
is the person, and it is the base form: Esperanto builds the nation outwards from the human being, not the other way round. Add -a and you get turka, Turkish; add - and you get Turkio, the country. That is the regular pattern for peoples with a long history of their own, the same one behind franco, germano and hungaro, and it is worth learning as a shape rather than as three separate words. Countries named after a place rather than a people run the other way, o first and second, which is why this chapter gives the whole system its own article on landoj kaj popoloj. Older texts write o with the -- suffix; both are correct and - is what you will meet today.
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