پكی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• փէքի (peki) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Contraction of پك ایی (pek iyi, pek eyi) or پك ایو (pek eyü), literally “very good”.

Interjection

پكی • (peki) (colloquial)

1. good, well, okay

Adverb

پكی • (peki) (colloquial)

1. so, then

Descendants

• Turkish: peki
• → Albanian: peqe, peqi, peki
• → Greek: πέ κεΐ (pé keḯ), πέ κεί (pé keí) — Crete
• → Ladino: peki

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “peki”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Dil Encümeni (1928), “پكی”, in İmlâ Lûgati [Spelling dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Devlet Matbaası, page 352b