köşegen

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From köşe (edge, corner) +‎ -gen. Coined by Turkish founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[1]

Adjective[edit]

köşegen

  1. diagonal

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 65

Further reading[edit]

  • köşegen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu