Urban legends : Turkish "kayık" "boat" and "Eskimo" "qayaq" "kayak"

• Main Author: Alonso de la Fuente, Jose
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Turkic languages; philology; Eskimo-Aleut languages; etymology; chance similarity; Kay; Kad’; Kayak; Atkan; aleut; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/74650; http://www.ejournals.eu/Studia-Linguistica/2010/2010/art/180/

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...