Turkic
/ˈtɜːr.kɪk/noun
Relating to the Turkic peoples, languages, or their family of languages.
Did you know?The English word Turkic comes through modern scholarly usage from Turk, the ethnonym for the Turkic peoples, ultimately tied to a long historical chain of names used by steppe societies and later empires.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Turkic
PTk
*türük / *türk
“An early ethnonym for the Turkic people, exact original sense uncertain”
Old Turkic
OTk
Türük / Türk
“The name of the Turkic people in early inscriptions”
Classical Chinese
Chinese
Tūjué
“A transcription used for the Göktürks in Chinese historical sources”
Medieval Latin
Latin
Turcus
“A Turk; a member of the Turkic peoples”
Modern English
English
Turkic
“Relating to the Turkic peoples or languages”