Where does “-lık” come from?

-lık (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ـلق, from Proto-Turkic *-lik — noun suffix; -ness.

-lık (Turkish): -ness; -hood; -ship

Definitions

  1. -ness; -hood; -ship

Ancestry of “-lık”, step by step

-lık traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish ـلق

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـلق-ness
2Proto-Turkic*-liknoun suffix; -ness

via Ottoman Turkish ـلك

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـلكness

Words derived from “-lık”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *-lik →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـلق →