Where does “Bozyazı” come from?
Bozyazı (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.
Ancestry of “Bozyazı”, step by step
Bozyazı traces back through two 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 yazı
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | yazı | writing; writing system; accusative singular of... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | یازی | writing, scripture, text, graphism of symbols such as characters or letters that express some meaning |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *yaŕ-ïg | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | yār- | to crack, split; to crack, split, crush; to... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |