Where does “Turk” come from?

Turk comes from Middle English Turke, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος, ultimately denoting a member of a Turkic people.

Turk (English): A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic...

Definitions

  1. A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic...

Ancestry of “Turk”, step by step

Turk traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English Turke

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishTurkeTurk
2Old FrenchTurcTurk
3Medieval LatinTurcusTurk
4Byzantine GreekΤοῦρκος—

via Middle English Turk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishTurk—

Words derived from “Turk”

Every word from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος →