Where does “Bozdoğan” come from?
Bozdoğan (Turkish) comes from Turkish Boz, from Ottoman Turkish boz, from Ottoman Turkish بوز, from Turkish büz, from French buse, from Old French buison, from Old French bois, from Frankish busk — to become, grow, appear.
Bozdoğan (Turkish): merlin
Definitions
- merlin
Ancestry of “Bozdoğan”, step by step
Bozdoğan traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish Boz
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | Boz | grizzle |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | boz | — |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | بوز | ice; gray; Alternative form of بز |
| 4 | Turkish | büz | a large-sized water pipe generally made of... |
| 5 | French | buse | hawk or buzzard; idiot, fool; fail |
| 6 | Old French | buison | bush |
| 7 | Old French | bois | woodland; woods |
| 8 | Frankish | busk | bush; bush, thicket |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | buskaz | bush; thicket |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰuH- | to become, grow, appear |
via Turkish doğan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | doğan | hawk, falcon, peregrine falcon; present... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | طوغان | hawk, falcon, any bird of prey of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *togan | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | *tȫg- | — |
via Ottoman Turkish بوزطوغان
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | بوزطوغان | — |