el gün

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Turkish

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Etymology

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el (nation, people) +‎ gün (foreign people), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēl (realm, people) and Proto-Turkic *kün (foreign people). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (elgün), Karakhanid [script needed] (el kün), and Azerbaijani el gün. [1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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el gün

  1. strangers

Usage notes

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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kün”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill