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şey: Arabic → Ottoman Turkish → Turkish · Lexodus

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şey

From Ottoman Turkish شی, شیئ (şey, “thing”), ultimately from Arabic شَيْء (šayʔ). For the "penis" sense development, compare Azerbaijani şey and Armenian բան (ban).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: şey (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1460
c. 1900

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.