Where does “güneş ışığı” come from?
güneş ışığı (Turkish) comes from Turkish ışık, from Ottoman Turkish ایشق, from Proto-Turkic *yaĺčuk, from Proto-Turkic *yaĺču- — to blaze, flame.
güneş ışığı (Turkish): sunlight
Ancestry of “güneş ışığı”, step by step
güneş ışığı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish ışık
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | ışık | light; inspired thought, ray of inspiration;... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | ایشق | light, the electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *yaĺčuk | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | *yaĺču- | to blaze, flame |
via Turkish güneş
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | güneş | sun; sunny place, a place where it takes sunlight |
| 2 | Proto-Turkic | *küneĺ | — |