diz.
knee
Meaning & usage
knee
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیز (diz, “knee”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (diz, “knee”), from Proto-Turkic *tīŕ, *tǖŕ (“knee”). Compare Hungarian térd (“knee”), a Turkic borrowing. See also dirsek (“elbow”), a derivation from the same root. Cognates Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰕 (tiz, “knee”), Karakhanid [script needed] (tīz, “knee”), Azerbaijani diz (“knee”), Chuvash чӗр (čĕr, “knee”), Kazakh тізе (tize, “knee”), Khakas тізек (tìzek, “knee”), Kyrgyz тизе (tize, “knee”), Southern Altai тизе (tize, “knee”), Tatar тез (tez, “knee”), Turkmen dȳz (“knee”), Tuvan дискек (diskek, “knee”), Uyghur تىز (tiz, “knee”), Uzbek tiz (“knee”), Yakut түһэх (tühex, “knee”).
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