el gün

Turkish

Etymology

From el + dialectal gün (“foreign people”), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ēl (“realm, people”) and *kün (“foreign people”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (elgün), Karakhanid [script needed] (el kün), etc.[1]

Noun

el gün

  1. strangers
    Bizi ele güne karşı rezil etme
    Do not embarrass us in front of strangers

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*kün”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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