Where does “dayı” come from?

dayı (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish دایی, from Persian دایی — maternal uncle.

dayı (Turkish): maternal uncle, one's mother's brother; dey;...

Definitions

  1. maternal uncle, one's mother's brother; dey;...

Ancestry of “dayı”, step by step

dayı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish دایی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishداییmaternal uncle, the brother of one's mother, thus a second-degree relative
2Persianداییmaternal uncle

via Proto-Turkic daja-gu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Turkicdaja-gu—

Words derived from “dayı”

Every word from Persian دایی →Every word from Ottoman Turkish دایی →