Urban legends: Turkish kayık ‘boat’ and “Eskimo” qayaq ‘kayak’

• Main Author: de la Fuente, José Andrés Alonso
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Polish
• Published: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 2015
• Subjects: Turkic languages; Eskimo-Aleut languages; philology; etymology; chance similarity; Kay; Kad’; Kayak; Atkan; aleut; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://www.ejournals.eu/sj/index.php/Sling/article/view/727

The main goal of this paper is to show that the proposed relationship between Turkish kayık ‘boat’ and Eskimo qayaq ‘kayak’ is far-fetched. After a philological analysis of the available materials, it will be proven that the oldest attestation and recoverable stages of these words are kay-guk (11th...