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kayık
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.
“Kayık is the false cognate that should fool almost everyone: it resembles kayak and means a small boat, but its documented Old Turkic history rules out the seductive Inuit connection.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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PARENT ROUTES1 REVIEWED RELATIONSHIP
- SOUND CHANGE
- Old Turkic kayguk develops into Turkish kayık through documented Turkic consonant-cluster reduction and vowel history; it does not descend from Inuit qayaq.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- 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.
2 CITATIONSUrban legends: Turkish kayık “boat” and “Eskimo” qayaq “kayak”pp. 7–24 — Old Turkic kayguk and modern Turkish kayık Kayık — Güncel Türkçe SözlükGüncel Türkçe Sözlük — kayık AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 525 ↗
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