köken: From Middle High German verwitewet, from Old High German firwituwēt. Originally the past participle of obsolete verwitwen. By surface analysis, ver- + Witwe + -t.
köken: From Latin viduus (“widowed”), probably modeled on the feminine form viuda, which predated it. It may have been altered from an Old Spanish form vidu (itself a learned borrowing from Latin) due to influence from the feminine; a naturally inherited form would be viso, which was attested once in isolation.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *tul(k) (“widow(er)”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱄𐰆𐰟 (tul), Old Uyghur [script needed] (tul, “widow”); Kazakh тұл (tūl), Uzbek tul, Turkish dul (“widow(er)”), etc.
Often used as an attributive, in preposition to other nouns
widow (woman whose spouse has died) · widower (man whose spouse has died)
çekim: çoğul özvegyek
köken: Of unknown origin according to Zaicz. Some, e.g. Róna-Tas and Berta, support Munkácsi's etymology as a loan from Alanic *iδæǰ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HwidʰáwaH (modern Ossetian идӕдз (idæʒ)), with the same development of *wi- as in öl.