Where does “-mez” come from?

-mez (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ـمز, from Proto-Turkic *-meŕ — Negative aorist suffix.

-mez (Turkish): Negative aorist suffix

Definitions

  1. Negative aorist suffix

Ancestry of “-mez”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـمزforms the negative aorist tense
2Proto-Turkic*-meŕNegative aorist suffix

Words derived from “-mez”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *-meŕ →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـمز →