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Where does “yavaş” come from?

yavaş (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish یواش, from Proto-Turkic *yabaĺč.

yavaş (Turkish): slow

Definitions

  1. slow

Ancestry of “yavaş”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishیواش—
2Proto-Turkic*yabaĺč—

Words derived from “yavaş”

  • yavaşça
Every word from Proto-Turkic *yabaĺč →