Gothic/Guti invention of boat of skins?

Don't forget the coracle: a small boat made of stretched animal skins. Caesar encountered them when he invaded England

In Wales the coracle is small and light enough for Taffy to carry on his back. These were once a common sight on the River Severn

The longship was apparently based on an earlier oared craft made from skins. As these became harder to procure early shipbuilders moved on to wood. Recently they discovered a pre-Viking ship which was similar in design but propelled entirely by oars

Originally posted by Karalem he could put plenty coal in there an happily shovel away

And his wellies, in case he spots an attractive-looking sheep on the bank

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri   The important point is that sometimes verbs and other words are created from some old words, for example about the word "history" and the verb "to date" in the Arabic language, the old Arabic word Maurakh (dated) is a loan word from Old Persian Mahraoch (Month-day, dated) and other Arabic words with the root "a-r-kh", like Moarikh (historian), Tarikh "history", ... were created later. I think the Turkish word for history is also tarikh?

Yes, I agree that "sometimes verbs and other words are created from some old words", but I don't believe, word of kayık's akkad origin theory

English  =  Arabic  =  Turkish
History  =  Tarikh   =  Tarih

Turks accept word of tarih's origin as Arabic but not kayık. TDK(Turkish Language Orgasination) accept that it has Turkish origin

and also according to map in below, you can't find any other origin language for 89% of Turkish words without Turkish

 

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri Just one percent of Turkish words have Persian origin?!! After thousands of living alongside Persian-speaking people in the Central Asia and Iran?

Don't get angry

"The 2005 edition of Güncel Türkçe Sözlük, the official dictionary of the Turkish language published by Turkish Language Association, contains 104,481 words, of which about 86% are Turkish and 14% are of foreign origin" so you can count more then 1370 persian words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_vocabulary

Don't compare with Azeris or Azeri language with Turkish. Example;

English         Azeri             Turkish
Computer     Kompüter      Bilgisayar

be love create own words

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri What is the Turkish word for Color? Renk, from Persian Rang? Black: Siayah from Persian Siah, Bule: Mavi from Persian Avi, Red: Kirmizi from Persian Kermez, ...?

Every primary school childern can say Siyah or Mavi are not real Turkish. They are not fit in Turkish Harmony Rules

About red, we use two word for red, turkish one "al", arabic one kırmızı ( كرمزى ?) and also they say it is old sanskrit word means a kind of bug which use for producing red dye

Turkish authorities put the blue-mavi, red-kırmızı in arabic origin part so maybe that's why, we put your persian examples in arabic group.

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri What is the Turkish word for Week? Hafta, from Persian Hafte? Wednesday: Çarşamba from Persian Chaharshanbeh, Thursday: Perşembe from Persian Panjshanbeh,  ...?

If you are glad to hear that, there is no exact Turkish word for days

Monday         Pazartesi   Pazar(persian bazzar)-ertesi(turkish) means the day after "Pazar"
Tuesday        Salı             Arabic or Jewish
Wednesday  Çarşamba   Persian
Thursday       Perşembe   Persian
Friday            Cuma          Arabic
Saturday       Cumartesi   similar with Pazartesi, the day after Cuma
Sunday         Pazar          Persian

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri What is the Turkish word for Fruit: Meyve from Persian Mive & Vegetable: Sebze from Persian Sabzi? Banana: Muz from Persian Moz, Date: Hurma from Persian Khorma, Cucumber: Hiyar from Persian Khiar, Watermelon: Karpuz from Persian Kharbuza, ...

sometimes we use both word(Arabic-Persian and Turkish)
white  -   beyaz  - ak
black   -   siyah   - kara
cucumber  -  hıyar  -  salatalık

You can check Persian part of this viki list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_replaced_loanwords_in_Turkish

many of word start to old. You can't see them in newpaper or TV
like arabic; talebe(student), nazır(minister), lügat(dictionary) for example I know these word but I don't use them when I speak Turkish but I am not sure that will my child know their meaning.

but some words still using example from persian
enemy-düşman-دشمن, lazy-tembel-تنبل but not ser-head-سار  even I don't know before the meaning of ser(head)

You should notice something about Turkish language reform. It isn't just about taking latin alphabet. It is also a war agaist arabic and persian origin words. Maybe my grandmum can know many old words which are persian origin, but not me. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language#Language_reform_and_modern_Turkish



Edited by Ollios - 19-Oct-2011 at 11:30