Turkic, a.
(ˈtɜːkɪk)
[f. Turk n.1 + -ic.]
Name of one of the branches of the Ural-Altaic or Turanian family of languages, which comprises the Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric, Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic; the Turkic branch comprises Eastern Turki or Uigur (including Jagatai and Turconian), West Turki or Selj{uacu}k and Osmanli, Kazan Tartar, Kirghiz, Nogai, Yakut, etc., the languages of the Turks (in the wide sense); also applied to the peoples using these: cf. Turkish, Tartar n.2, and Turcic.
| 1859 Dwight Mod. Philol. 124 The Turkic [languages]. 1863 C. L. Brace Races Old World xi. 86 Another Turanian tribe are the Khazars, probably Finnic, though with Turkic mixture. They appear in Europe between the seventh and tenth century,..between the Caspian and the Dnieper. They are followed by the Pechenegs, a Turkic tribe, who occupy Bessarabia, Cherson, and part of Taurida, in the tenth and eleventh centuries. 1875–6 Rawlinson Orig. Nat. i. i. (1878) 4 The Muscovite and Turkic hordes are becoming scarce distinguishable from other Europeans. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 557 The Magyars received the knowledge of southern products and of agriculture from their Turkic neighbors. 1892 S. Laing Hum. Orig. iii. (1894) 86 Various Turkic and Mongolian dialects. |