köken: From Proto-Turkic *ōy- (“to pick, peck”). Cognate with Old Turkic verb oj- ("to chisel"; "to make a deepening"). The nominal and verbal meanings o:j ~ o:j- are correlative with each other within known limits. The central meanings of o:j include: * 1) hollow, depression, pothole, ravine * 2) valley, immutability The central meanings of the verb o:j- are somewhat richer than the nominal meanings…
topic, subject, theme · reason, cause, grounds, justification · motif (recurring or dominant element in a work of art)
çekim: çoğul aiheet · tamlayan aiheen
köken: Probably via metathesis from ajaa (“to drive, pursue”) + -e (*ajeh), "that which spurs or drives on" > "reason". May also be inspired by aie. Another theory proposes a borrowing from an earlier (Pre-Germanic) form of Proto-Germanic *aiz (“copper, bronze”) (like *ajes- → *aješ > *ajeh), but the semantics and distribution make this questionable.
köken: By surface analysis, alas (“base”) + an, from Malay alasan, from Classical Malay السن (alasan), from Javanese ꦲꦭꦱꦤ꧀ (alasan, “reason, excuse”), from Old Javanese aleśyan (“on the pretext of”), leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).