Etymograph

English

külliye

Külliye comes from Arabic كُلِّيَّة ‘college, academy, school, secondary school’, from ـِيَّة ‘used to form abstract nouns from other nouns…’, and ultimately from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔa-kʷall-.

  1. Proto-Afroasiaticprehistoric (reconstructed)*ʔa-kʷall-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*kull-‘every’reconstructed
  3. Arabicc. 500–presentكُلّkull‘each one, everyone’
  4. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentـِيَّة-iyya‘used to form abstract nouns from other nouns and from adjectives. Usually there is a…’
  5. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentكُلِّيَّةkulliyya‘college, academy, school, secondary school’
  6. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928كلیهkülliye
  7. Turkish1928–presentkülliye
  8. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Afroasiaticprehistoric (reconstructed)*ʔa-kʷall-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*kull-‘every’reconstructed
  3. Arabicc. 500–presentكُلّkull‘each one, everyone’
  4. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentـِيَّة-iyya‘used to form abstract nouns from other nouns and from adjectives. Usually there is a…’
  5. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentكُلِّيَّةkulliyya‘college, academy, school, secondary school’
  6. Ottoman Turkishc. 1300–1928كلیهkülliye
  7. Turkish1928–presentkülliye
  8. Englishtodaysame form

Every English word from Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔa-kʷall-

Today it means

noun A Turkish mosque complex.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔa-kʷall- / külliye

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