şişko
Turkish
Etymology
From şiş-. Inherited from Ottoman Turkish شیشقو.
The suffix likely comes from a Slavic language, where -ko is a diminutive suffix. This might be Serbo-Croatian, as the -ko suffix often denotes negative features: Compare Serbo-Croatian debeo turning into debeljko (“fatso”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: şiş‧ko
Descendants
- → Swedish: shishko
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şişko”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4495
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şişko”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “şişko”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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