Where does “aşıq” come from?

aşıq (Crimean Tatar) comes from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian asuk, from Proto-Malayic asu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian asu, from Proto-Austronesian asu — dog animal.

aşıq (Crimean Tatar): knucklebone of sheep or goat, talus, a bone (as a metatarsus or metacarpus of a sheep) used in games and formerly in divination

Definitions

  1. knucklebone of sheep or goat, talus, a bone (as a metatarsus or metacarpus of a sheep) used in games and formerly in divination

Ancestry of “aşıq”, step by step

aşıq traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Malayo-Polynesian asuk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Malayo-Polynesianasuk—
2Proto-Malayicasu—
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesianasudog
4Proto-Austronesianasudog animal

via Arabic عَاشِق

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicعَاشِقadmirer, lover; lover
2Arabicعَشِقَto love
Every word from Proto-Austronesian asu →Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian asu →Every word from Proto-Malayic asu →