kopuntu

(Engels)

1. A piece broken off from the whole.
2. A minority living away from their homeland; diaspora.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ko.punˈtu/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Ottoman Turkish: قوپمق

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قوپمق (ḳopmaḳ, “to break off, to start off, to begin”), from Proto-Turkic *kop- (“to come out, to move out”), morphologically kop- + -un + -tu.

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