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Where does “baykuş” come from?

baykuş (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish بای, from Proto-Turkic *bāy.

baykuş (Turkish): owl

Definitions

  1. owl

Ancestry of “baykuş”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishبایrich
2Proto-Turkic*bāy—
Every word from Proto-Turkic *bāy →