تویسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From توی (tüy, “body hair; feather”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, -süz, “-less”).

Adjective

تویسز • (tüysüz)

hairless, glabrous, destitute of hair
featherless, apteric, having no feathers

Derived terms

تویسز شفتالو (tüysüz şeftali, “nectarine”)

Descendants

Turkish: tüysüz
→ Armenian: թո̈ւյսո̈ւզ (tʻüysüz)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tüysüz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4954
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تویسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 418
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تویسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 615

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