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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـِیَّت (-iyyet), from Arabic ـِيَّة (-iyya). Doublet of -iye.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-iyet
- (no longer productive) Used to make noun meaning state of an adjective
- Synonym: -lık
- hür (“free”) + -iyet → hürriyet (“freedom”)
- ulvi (“holy”) + -iyet → ulviyet (“holiness”)
- faal (“active”) + -iyet → faaliyet (“activity”)
- (no longer productive) Used to make nouns from other parts of speech, mainly abstract nouns
- cins (“type, genus”) + -iyet → cinsiyet (“gender”)
- millet (“nation”) + -iyet → milliyet (“nationality”)
- medeni (“civil”) + -iyet → medeniyet (“civilization”)
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