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DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
Is Turkish kayık an Arctic borrowing related to qayaq?
No. Old Turkic kayguk is documented centuries before the modern surface resemblance and belongs to a separate Turkic history.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 176
kayık
/kaˈjɯk/ · noun
The Turkish word for a small boat, continued from Old Turkic kayguk and analyzed within an internal Turkic history rather than the Inuit qayaq family.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 01supportsscholarly article
Urban legends: Turkish kayık “boat” and “Eskimo” qayaq “kayak”
Rejects genealogical and borrowing connections to qayaq.
Old Turkic evidence and conclusion- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
- YEAR
- 2010
- PUBLISHER
- Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis · Jagiellonian University Repository
SOURCE 02contextinstitutional lexicon
Kayık — Güncel Türkçe Sözlük
Documents the modern Turkish headword.
Güncel Türkçe Sözlük — kayık- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Türk Dil Kurumu Editors
- YEAR
- 2023
- PUBLISHER
- Türk Dil Kurumu
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The specialist study compares the philological records and rejects both genealogy and borrowing.
RESOLUTION NOTEThe graph keeps the two boat families disconnected.