koyu
See also: köyü
Tsou
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
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References
[edit]- 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages][1] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation, 2014–2026
Turkish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قویو (koyu), from Proto-Turkic *koyug.[1][2][3]
Cognate with Kazakh қою (qoü), Uzbek quyuq, Uyghur قويۇق (qoyuq), Bashkir ҡуйы (quyı), Khakas хойығ (xoyığ), Tuvan хоюг (xoyug), Yakut хойуу (qoyuu).
Adjective
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- (of a color) dark, deep
- dense, thick
- (figuratively, of a thought, behaviour etc.) excessive, fanatic
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
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References
[edit]- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972), “koyuğ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 676
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*Koju-g”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koyu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “koyu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koyu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2767