liquid, fluid (existing in the physical state of a liquid) · watery, diluted or containing too much water
zıt: ҡуйы
köken: From Common Kypchak *suyuq (“liquid, watery, diluted”), from *suvu- or *sugu- (“to become diluted or watery”). Possibly related to Proto-Turkic *sub (“water”). Compare to Karakhanid [script needed] (suvuq, “watery”); Tatar сыек (sıyıq, “watery, diluted”), Kazakh сұйық (sūiyq, “watery, diluted”), Kyrgyz суюк (suyuk, “watery, diluted”), Uzbek suyuq (“watery, diluted”), Uyghur سۇيۇق (suyuq, “watery,…
Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (lắtăx, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *latis (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō-…