قیو

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Ottoman Turkish

قیو

Alternative forms

قویو (kuyu), قویی (kuyi)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kudug (“well”); cognate with Azerbaijani quyu, Bashkir ҡоҙоҡ (qoźoq), Kazakh құдық (qūdyq), Kyrgyz кудук (kuduk), Tatar кое (qoye), Turkmen guýy, Uyghur قۇدۇق (quduq), Uzbek quduq and Yakut кудук (kuduk).

Noun

قیو • (kuyu)

well, a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water or other fluids
Synonyms: بیر (bir), چاه (çah)
shaft, pit, a vertical passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine

Derived terms

زنجیرلو قیو (zincirli kuyu, “well worked by a well-sweep and chain”)
قار قیوسی (kar kuyusu, “snowpit”)
قیو صویی (kuyu suyu, “hard water”)
قیو قازمق (kuyu kazmak, “to work against someone”)
قیو كناری (kuyu kenarı, “stone forming the edge of a well”)
قیو گبی (kuyu gibi, “gloomy, dark”)
قیوجق (kuyucuk, “little well or pit”)
قیوجی (kuyucu, “well-digger”)
كیرچ قیوسی (kireç kuyusu, “pit into which lime is run”)
لغم قیوسی (lağım kuyusu, “sinkhole to a sewer”)

Descendants

Turkish: kuyu
→ Abkhaz: акәыи (akʷʼəj)
→ Laz: კუჲი (ǩuyi), კუი (ǩui) — alternative spelling, ქუჲი (kuyi), ქუი (kui) — Atina, Arkabi

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kuyu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2875
Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قویی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 379a
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 994
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Puteus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1412
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قویی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3812
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kuyu”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1510

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