yazıt
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, yaz- (“to write, to inscribe”) + -ıt (“noun-forming suffix”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *yạŕ- (“to write”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]yazıt (definite accusative yazıtı, plural yazıtlar)
- carved inscription, stele
- Synonym: kitabe
- Orhun Yazıtları ― the Orkhon Inscriptions
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yazıt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jạŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Further reading
[edit]- “yazıt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yazıt”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5266