yenlik

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yeŋgül (“light; easy”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (jeŋil, “easy”); Bashkir еңел (yeñel), Tatar җиңел (ciñel), Kyrgyz жеңил (jeŋil), Southern Altai јеҥил (ǰeŋil), Crimean Tatar yengil, Kumyk енгил (yeñil), Azerbaijani yüngül (“light”), Uzbek yengil, Khakas ниик (niik), Shor ниик, Western Yugur žig, Chuvash ҫӑмӑл (śămăl, “light; easy”), etc.

A variant of yeğni, see also dialectal yenli, yengil.

Adjective

yenlik

1. lightweight (dialect, Sakarya, Samsun, Ordu, Giresun, Trabzon, Rize)

References

• “yenlik”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982