kaygı

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Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *Kadgu (sorrow)[1]. Cognate with Azerbaijani qayğı, Uzbek qayg'u, Chuvash хуйхӑ (hujh̬ă, grief, sorrow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɑjɡɯ]
  • Hyphenation: kay‧gı

Noun

kaygı (definite accusative kaygıyı, plural kaygılar)

  1. worry, concern, anxiety, solicitude

Declension

Inflection
Nominative kaygı
Definite accusative kaygıyı
Singular Plural
Nominative kaygı kaygılar
Definite accusative kaygıyı kaygıları
Dative kaygıya kaygılara
Locative kaygıda kaygılarda
Ablative kaygıdan kaygılardan
Genitive kaygının kaygıların

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References

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