köşegen

Turkish

Etymology

From köşe (edge, corner) + -gen. Coined by Turkish founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[1]

Adjective

köşegen

  1. diagonal

Declension

References

  1. Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 65

Further reading

  • köşegen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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