Talk:orkut

RFV discussion: July–December 2022

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orkut

This is about the Turkish entry. Not found as a common noun in dictionaries or elsewhere. It is hard to search, because Orkut is a common Turkish masculine given name, as well as the name of a once popular former social networking service.  --Lambiam 17:46, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia's article "Orkut (given name)" gives "holy city" as the literal meaning of the name. I can't vouch for that, but for all I know it could be true. Anyway, it's possible that someone saw this and decided to create the entry orkut with the literal etymological meaning, even if it's not used other than as a name. 98.170.164.88 04:19, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

The etymology “From Old Turkic or (“city”) + kut (“holy, fortune”)” was replaced a few months ago by an {{rfv}}. Wikipedia has: “composed of or ('create') and kut ('holy')”. Earlier, the text on Wikipedia read, ‘"Or" means "Greate", "togetherness", "association", and/or "cooccurrence".’^[1] This does not inspire confidence in the editor’s competence. There is no Turkish noun or and no verb with the stem or-, but Proto-Turkic *or- may have meant something like “place”. The combined term or kut would not have meant “holy place”, but “the place is holy”. Old Turkic, long extinct, belonged to the Siberian Turkic branch of Turkic, while Turkish belongs to another branch, the Oğuz languages.  --Lambiam 08:31, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed. 70.172.194.25 06:51, 28 December 2022 (UTC)