Where does “yastık” come from?
yastık (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish یاصدق, from Ottoman Turkish yastuq, from Proto-Turkic *yaŕtuk.
yastık (Turkish): pillow
Ancestry of “yastık”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | یاصدق | pillow |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | yastuq | — |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *yaŕtuk | — |