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“Sukingu” the First Word Known as Bathroom in Turkish |
Res. Assist. Serkan ŞEN Abstract: In the introdu In this study, it will be dwelled on the word sukıngu that takes place in the article “New Fragments of the Budist Uighur Text Sekiz yükmek yaruk” published by Juten Oda. According to Oda sukıngı is derivated from suk- or sok- “to thrust into” and it means “winter dwelling”. Marcel Erdal disagrees this opinion. Erdal claims that it is derivated from sogın- “cool themselves” and he transcribes this word as sogıngu means “refreshing room for the summer”. I think that it is derivated from sukın- that means “to wash oneself” in Old Turkish. According to me it is more suitable to mean sukıngu derivated from this verbal stem as “bathroom” for morphology, semantics and also Turkish house culture.
Key words: Old Turkish, Old Uighurish, Turkish house culture, bathroom, have a bath
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