یوند قوشی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of یوند (yund, “wild mare”) +‎ قوش (kuş, “bird”).

Noun

یوند قوشى • (yund kuşu)

1. wagtail, any of various birds of the genus Motacilla

   Synonym: قویروق صلان (kuyruk salan)

Descendants

• Turkish: yont kuşu

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yont kuşu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5358
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوند قوشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1369
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Motacilla”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1087
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوند قوشی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2221