Where does “saçmalık” come from?
saçmalık (Turkish) comes from Turkish -lık, from Ottoman Turkish ـلق, from Proto-Turkic *-lik.
saçmalık (Turkish): nonsense
Ancestry of “saçmalık”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | -lık | -ness; -hood; -ship |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | ـلق | -ness |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *-lik | — |