Where does “balık adam” come from?

balık adam (Turkish) comes from Turkish adam, from Ottoman Turkish آدم, from Old Anatolian Turkish آدم, from Arabic آدَم, from Arabic آدَمُ, from Hebrew אָדָם, from Hebrew אדמה — earth, soil, land.

balık adam (Turkish): frogman, diver

Definitions

  1. frogman, diver

Ancestry of “balık adam”, step by step

balık adam traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish adam

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishadamman; human
2Ottoman Turkishآدمhuman; person; man
3Old Anatolian Turkishآدمperson, human
4ArabicآدَمAdam
5Arabicآدَمُ—
6Hebrewאָדָםearth, man, soil, light brown; Adam; man, person
7Hebrewאדמהearth, soil, land

via Turkish Balık

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishBalıkPisces
2Ottoman Turkishبالقfish
3Proto-Turkicbālïkfish
4Proto-Turkic-čiProfession suffix
Every word from Hebrew אדמה →