ایك

Ottoman Turkish

ایكلر

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *iyik (“spindle”); cognate with Azerbaijani iy, Chuvash йӗке (jĕk̬e), Kyrgyz ийик (iyik), Southern Altai ийик (iyik), Turkmen ik, Uyghur يىك (yik) and Uzbek yig.

Noun

ایك • (iğ)

1. spindle, a rod used for spinning and then winding fibres, especially wool

   Synonyms: دوك (dük), مغزل (miğzel)

2. spindle, axle, shaft, a rod which turns, or on which something turns

Derived terms

• ایك طاشی (iğ taşı, “millstone which revolves with the axis”)
• ایكجی (iğci, “maker or seller of spindles”)
• ایكلو (iğli, “furnished with a spindle”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: iğ

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iğ3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2101
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “ایك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 94b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 221
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fusus”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 636
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 600
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iğ”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 300