توی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

توك‎ (tüğ)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tǖk (“hair, feather”); cognate with Azerbaijani tük (“hair”), Kazakh түк (tük, “hair, fur”), Yakut түү (tüü, “feather; fur”) and Tuvan дүк (dük, “hair, fur”).

Noun

توی • (tüy)

body hair, fibre of down
feather or plume of down
down, hair or feathers as a covering, plumage
quill from a bird's wing

Derived terms

تویجكز‎ (tüyceğiz, “small or pet hair”)
تویسز‎ (tüysüz, “hairless; featherless”)
تویلنمك‎ (tüyilenmek, “to become covered with hairs”)
تویلو‎ (tüylü, “feathered; furry”)

Descendants

Turkish: tüy
Gagauz: tüy

Coordinate terms

صاچ‎ (saç, “hair on the head”)
قیل‎ (qıl, “hair, bristle”)

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911), “توی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “توی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 1481–1482
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tüy”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “توی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 614

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