önder
Turkish
Etymology
Neologism, coined as part of Atatürks’s language reforms, from the locative önde of ön (“front”) + -r, with the form probably also influenced by the earlier loan lider or by the Persian suffix -dar/-der, compare Turkish dindar.
Anagrams
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: öndər
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “önder”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 123
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