singular feminine nominative of -ий (-ij): -y, -ia (frequently found as part of foreign borrowings, where it represents the foreign suffixes -y, -ia, -ie, etc.) · -ion (frequently found as part of foreign borrowings, where it represents -ion, especially as part of -ция (-cija, “-tion”)) · Suffix used to create abstract nouns from nouns denoting persons.
köken: Ultimately from Latin -ia or Ancient Greek -ία (-ía), -εία (-eía); found only in words borrowed from other languages (compare German, French -ie).
Suffix to form country names when added to names of ethnic groups. · Suffix to form place of something.
köken: From Persian ـِسْتَانْ (-estân, “place of”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
кыргыз (kırgız, “Kyrgyz”) + -стан (-stan) → Кыргызстан (Kırgızstan, “Kyrgyzstan”)
өзбек (özbek, “Uzbek”) + -стан (-stan) → Өзбекстан (Özbekstan, “Uzbekistan”)
Suffix to form country names when added to names of ethnic groups.
köken: From Persian ـِسْتَانْ (-estân, “place of”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam (“position, location, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
world · a metaphorical world (how one lives one's life) · society, the times
köken: From Middle Chinese 世界 (MC syejH keajH), originally a translation of Sanskrit लोकधातु (lokadhātu, “region or part of the world”). Compare Hokkien 世界 (sè-kài).
earth, land · plot, estate, a piece or stretch of land · soil, dirt
çekim: çoğul földek
köken: Of uncertain origin, perhaps a derivation. One explanation is that it is from föl (“the upper part of something”) + -d (nominal suffix, originally diminutive suffix). For similar derivation, compare gyenge (“weak”) > gyengéd (“gentle”).
köken: Uncertain – usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). According to Pokorny, cognate with inquinō, obscēnus, cūniō and English whin.
earth, ground, humus; (collectively) terrain · land, territory (area of land) · land, realm (land associated with a given state)
çekim: çoğul земи́
köken: From Proto-Slavic *zemľa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémijāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.
aile: Земя́
буца земя
плодородна земя
сушава земя
Etimoloji
Inherited from Middle French terre, from Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”). See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman terre; Gallo tèrr or terre; Picard tère; Bourguignon târre; Franco-Provençal and Occitan tèrra; Corsican terra.