Where does “-dikçe” come from?

-dikçe (Turkish) comes from Turkish -çe, from Ottoman Turkish -ce, from Proto-Turkic *-če — Suffix expressing the equative case.

-dikçe (Turkish): as long as

Definitions

  1. as long as

Ancestry of “-dikçe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkish-çelike, -like, -ly; -ish; as if, as though; in the...
2Ottoman Turkish-ce—
3Proto-Turkic*-čeSuffix expressing the equative case
Every word from Proto-Turkic *-če →