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  • cawitiş "chewing": from PIE base *gyeu- "to chew."
Cognates: cf. Middle Persian jw, Lithuanian ziaumoju, Russian zuju, Old High German kewa, Old English ceowan "chew."
English Cognate: chew
Source: Cheung p. 226, Watkins p.35


  • ciwan, cun "young": from PIE base *yeu- "vital force, youthful vigor."
Cognates: cf. Avestan yavān-, Old Persian yawān/yuwān, Sanskrit yuva, Latin juvenis, Lithuanian jaunas, Old High German jung, German jung, Gothic juggs, Russian junyj, Old Irish oac, Welsh ieuanc "young."
English Cognate: young, juvenile (from Latin), rejuvenate (from Latin)
Source: Etymonline, Nişanyan, Watkins p.103


  • ciwamerd, comerd "young man": from PIE bases of *yeu- "vital force, youthful vigor" and *mrtro- "to die."
Cognates: Persian cıwanmerd.
English Cognate: N/A (young and mortal as separate words)
Source: Nişanyan



  • cîger "liver": from PIE base *yēkwr "liver."
Cognates: cf. Avestan yākarə, Sanskrit yaknas, Latin jecur, Lithuanian aknas, Russian ikra, Greek hēpar "liver."
English Cognate: hepatitis (a medical term from Greek)
Source: Etymonline, Nişanyan, Watkins p.102




  • cînî "woman": from PIE base *gwen- "woman, wife."
Cognates: cf. Avestan jainish "wife;" Sanskrit janis "a woman," gná "wife of a god, a goddess;" Greek gyné "a woman, a wife;" Gaelic bean "woman;" Armenian kin "woman;" Old Prussian genna "woman;" Gothic qino "a woman, wife; qéns "a queen."
English Cognate: queen, gynecology (from Greek), polygyny (from Greek)
Source: Etymonline, Watkins p.34



  • cîwiyayiş, cınde "living", "alive": from PIE base *gweie- "to live."
Cognates: cf. Sanskrit jivah "alive, living;" Old Persian *jivaka- "alive," Greek bios "life, Old English cwic "alive;" Latin vivus "living, alive," vita "life;" Middle Persian zhiwak "alive;" Lithuanian gyvas "living, alive;" Old Irish bethu "life," bith "age;" Welsh byd "world," Old Frisian quik, Old Norse kvikr "living, alive," Old High German quec "lively."
English Cognate: quick, bio- (from Greek), zoo (from Greek), zodiac (from Greek), azote (from Greek), vital (from Latin), viva (from Latin),
Source: Etymonline, Nişanyan, Watkins p.33


Çavkanî
  • Cheung, Johnny. Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Boston: Brill. 2007.
  • Etymonline. Online English Etymology Dictionary. <etymonline.com> by Douglas Harper.
  • Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
  • Nisanyan, Sevan. Etymological Dictionary of Modern Turkish. Adam Y. Istanbul 2007.
  • Watkins, Calvert. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Ed. Houghton Publishing. USA 2007.