توی

توی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• توك‎ (tüğ)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tǖk (“hair, feather”); cognate with Azerbaijani tük (“hair”), Kazakh түк (tük, “hair, fur”), Yakut түү (tüü, “feather; fur”) and Tuvan дүк (dük, “hair, fur”).

Noun

توی • (tüy)

1. body hair, fibre of down
2. feather or plume of down
3. down, hair or feathers as a covering, plumage
4. quill from a bird's wing

Derived terms

• تویجكز‎ (tüyceğiz, “small or pet hair”)
• تویسز‎ (tüysüz, “hairless; featherless”)
• تویلنمك‎ (tüyilenmek, “to become covered with hairs”)
• تویلو‎ (tüylü, “feathered; furry”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tüy
• Gagauz: tüy

Coordinate terms

• صاچ‎ (saç, “hair on the head”)
• قیل‎ (qıl, “hair, bristle”)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “توی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “توی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1481–1482
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tüy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “توی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614