Where does “balık kartalı” come from?
balık kartalı (Turkish) comes from Turkish kartal, from Ottoman Turkish قرتال, from Proto-Kartvelian kart-, from Finnish kärsi, from Proto-Finnic karci — char, that has been burned and charred.
balık kartalı (Turkish): osprey (osprey)
Definitions
- osprey (osprey)
Ancestry of “balık kartalı”, step by step
balık kartalı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish kartal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | kartal | eagle |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | قرتال | eagle, any of several birds of prey in the subfamily Aquilinae |
| 3 | Proto-Kartvelian | kart- | eastern Georgia, Georgians |
| 4 | Finnish | kärsi | Third-person singular indicative past form of... |
| 5 | Proto-Finnic | karci | char, that has been burned and charred |