دكز

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ.

Noun

دَكِزْ • (däŋiz)

1. sea
   • 14th Century, anonymous author, Dresden Manuscript: Kitāb-ı Dedem Ḳorḳud Alā Lisān-ı Tāife-i Oġuzān:

     اورلشبن صولر طاشيه دكز طولمز

     örläşübän sular daşsa däŋiz dolmaz

     [even] if the rising waters spilled the sea wouldn't fill up

Derived terms

• دكز آغزی (däŋiz aġzı, “jellyfish”)
• دكزلر دكزی (däŋizlär däŋizi, “ocean”)

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: dəniz
• Gagauz: deniz
• Ottoman Turkish: دكز (deñiz), دكیز (deñiz), տէնկիզ (dengiz /⁠deñiz⁠/) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: deniz

Further reading

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “deniz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Boeschoten, Hendrik (2022), “däñiz”, in A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.169), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 330
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “deniz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1159

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• دكیز (deñiz)
• տէնկիզ (dengiz /⁠deñiz⁠/) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دكز (däŋiz), Proto-Turkic *teŋiŕ.

Noun

دڭز • (deñiz)

1. sea

   Synonyms: بحر, دریا

   ایچ دکز ― iç deñiz ― inland sea

   سرت دکز ― sert deñiz ― rough sea

Derived terms

• شاب دكزی (şab deñizi, “Red Sea”, literally “Alum Sea”)
• دكز قویونی (deñiz koyunu, “fur seal”, literally “sea sheep”)

Descendants

• Turkish: deniz

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دكز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 576
• Redhouse, J. W. (1884), “sea”, in A Lexicon, English and Turkish, 3rd edition, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 667