Where does “yayın” come from?
yayın (Turkish) comes from Turkish yaymak, from Ottoman Turkish یایمق, from Proto-Turkic yād- — to spread.
yayın (Turkish): broadcast
Ancestry of “yayın”, step by step
yayın traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish yaymak
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | yaymak | to scatter; to spread; to spread, broadcast,... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | یایمق | to spread, to stretch out or open out something so that it more fully covers a given area of space |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | yād- | to spread |
via Ottoman Turkish یاین
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | یاین | either of three different kinds of fish |
| 2 | Proto-Turkic | *yāyïn | sheatfish, catfish |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | yāy | summer, spring |