Where does “ağaç çileği” come from?
ağaç çileği (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish آغاج چیلكی, from Turkish çilek, from English strawberry, from Middle English strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic strau, from Proto-Germanic strawą — sterile, infertile.
ağaç çileği (Turkish): raspberry
Definitions
- raspberry
Ancestry of “ağaç çileği”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | آغاج چیلكی | raspberry, hindberry, the juicy aggregate fruit of many plants in the genus Rubus |
| 2 | Turkish | çilek | strawberry |
| 3 | English | strawberry | The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain... |
| 4 | Middle English | strawbery | A strawberry |
| 5 | Old English | strēawberġe | strawberry |
| 6 | Old English | strēaw | straw |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | strau | straw |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | strawą | straw |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |