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Where does “dağcılık” come from?

dağcılık (Turkish) comes from Turkish dağcı, from Turkish dağ, from Ottoman Turkish داغ, from Classical Persian داغ, from Proto-Indo-European dʰégʷʰeti — to burn, to be burning.

dağcılık (Turkish): mountaineering

Definitions

  1. mountaineering

Ancestry of “dağcılık”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishdağcıalpinist, mountaineer
2Turkishdağmountain
3Ottoman Turkishداغmountain; sear, mark left by cauterization or...
4Classical Persianداغ—
5Proto-Indo-Europeandʰégʷʰetito burn, to be burning
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