NODE / 0568attestedTurkish
kayık
PRONUNCIATION /kaˈjɯk/
small boat or rowboat
- DATE
- Modern Turkish
- SENSE
- small boat
- FAMILY
- Turkic / Common Turkic · Oghuz
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:55:kayık:attested:sense:small-boat
The Turkish Language Association preserves the modern headword.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERhistorical continuationestablished
Old Turkic · Old Turkic, 11th century · small boatkayguk
small boat
- SOUND
- Old Turkic kayguk develops into Turkish kayık through documented Turkic consonant-cluster reduction and vowel history; it does not descend from Inuit qayaq.
- MEANING
- The small-boat referent remains central.
- SCHOLAR
- José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente · Türk Dil Kurumu
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The historical and modern forms are independently documented.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 0
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 0
- DEEPEST PATH
- 0
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 0
No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE