CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 177
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openproposed
Does kayguk continue *kad- “fir tree” or a *kay- “turn, bend” base?
The reviewed article argues for a *kad- / *kad-ï analysis and discusses the older *kay- account. The historical kayguk stage is secure; the deeper derivation remains proposed.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 177
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”
Publishes the competing analyses and the secure historical stage.
Turkic analysis: kayguk, *kad- / *kad-ï, and the competing *kay- account- 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
Anchors the modern endpoint but does not resolve the deeper derivation.
Current kayık headword- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Türk Dil Kurumu Editors
- YEAR
- 2023
- PUBLISHER
- Türk Dil Kurumu
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- One specialist study presents and evaluates the competing Turkic analyses.
RESOLUTION NOTEBoth analyses remain named; the linear dossier follows the article's preferred route at proposed confidence.