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Where does “bak” come from?

bak (Swedish) comes from Turkish bak, from Turkish bakmak, from Ottoman Turkish باقمق, from Proto-Turkic *bak-.

bak (Swedish): daymark

Definitions

  1. daymark

Ancestry of “bak”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishbaksecond-person singular imperative of bakmak; look
2Turkishbakmakto look , gaze; to face, view, watch, have a...
3Ottoman Turkishباقمقto look; to look at
4Proto-Turkic*bak-—

Words derived from “bak”

  • pooki
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