Why do most think that Turkey is not part of Europe (live in, beaches)

[Radik Safin]

Originally Posted by Davy-040

Anglo-Saxons came from mainland Northwestern Europe.

Slavs homeland is Polesia (Northeastern Europe)

Albanians have always lived in the Balkans (Southeastern Europe)

The Danish word "kujon" /a coward / comes from the Turkic word "a hare".
Uzbek "quyon" /a hare/.
Kazakh "қоян" (ckoyan) /a hare/.
Bashkir "ҡуян" (ckuyan) /a hare/.
Mishar "куян" (kuyan) /a hare; figurative meaning – a coward/.
Where did you get our word from?

[ABQConvict]

Originally Posted by Radik Safin

The Danish word "kujon" /a coward / comes from the Turkic word "a hare".
Uzbek "quyon" /a hare/.
Kazakh "қоян" (ckoyan) /a hare/.
Bashkir "ҡуян" (ckuyan) /a hare/.
Mishar "куян" (kuyan) /a hare; figurative meaning – a coward/.
Where did you get our word from?

The Danes borrowed the word 'kujon' from the German kujon, who borrowed it from the French couillon who derived it from Latin cōleus/culleus, which means 'a shriveled sack'.

The phonological similarity to the Turkic word meaning 'hare' is a false cognate.

[Lillie767]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

The Danes borrowed the word 'kujon' from the German kujon, who borrowed it from the French couillon who derived it from Latin cōleus/culleus, which means 'a shriveled sack'.

The phonological similarity to the Turkic word meaning 'hare' is a false cognate.

The most interesting post I've read on C-D in a very long time. Kudos (from the Greek!)

[GSPNative]

Originally Posted by Yasmin35

Turkey is European country in the southeast Europe and southwest Asia by why does everyone have think its Asian Istanbul is largest city in Europe yet is never talked about as if it's Europe when people talk European cities they talk London , Paris , Rome , Berlin and Amsterdam never Istanbul despite that it is bigger than London and Paris.
U.K. Is a island separated from the European continent so why is included in Europe and not Turkey we are not in Europe anymore I mean the Eu Turkey even wants to join the eu.

The Ottoman Empire invaded Europe and took over a lot of it. The only portion of Turkey in Europe is a very small piece of land. It's culturally dissimilar to Europe and there are hundreds of years of hostilities that still linger.

The UK isn't part of Europe, either, in the view of a lot of people.

The UK and France still have bits of land all around the world, but they aren't part of the various continents where they hold random bits of land. Is the UK part of South America since it still owns the Falkland Islands? By your logic, it is.

[Radik Safin]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

The Danes borrowed the word 'kujon' from the German kujon,

The German word "Kujon" is translated as a scoundrel.
If in the Danish language the Turkic word was preserved as a coward, in English and other European languages it was preserved as a rabbit.

Kyrgyz "коён" (koyon) /a hare/.
Bashkir "йорт ҡуяны" (yort ckuyani) /a house hare, a rabbit/.

Greek κουνελακι (kounelaki) /a rabbit, a coney/.
French "bouquin" /a hare, a coney/.

English "coney", "cony" [couni] /a rabbit/.
Dutch "konijn" /a rabbit, a coney/.
German "Kaninchen" /a rabbit, a coney/.

Irish "coinín" /a rabbit, a coney/.
Welsh "cwningod" /a rabbit, a coney/.
Scottish Gaelic "сoinein" /a rabbit, a coney/.

French "couinement" /the cry of a hare or a rabbit/.
Spanish "conejo" /a rabbit, a coney/.
Latin "cuniculus" /a rabbit, a coney/.

[Radik Safin]

The origin of the German word "Beuge" /a bend/ and the English verb "bow" you can see here
https://www.metacafe.com/watch/12188...7f9c6589c9ca4/

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by GSPNative

The Ottoman Empire invaded Europe and took over a lot of it. The only portion of Turkey in Europe is a very small piece of land. It's culturally dissimilar to Europe and there are hundreds of years of hostilities that still linger.

The UK isn't part of Europe, either, in the view of a lot of people.

The UK and France still have bits of land all around the world, but they aren't part of the various continents where they hold random bits of land. Is the UK part of South America since it still owns the Falkland Islands? By your logic, it is.

That's a first head for me.

[Davy-040]

Afrikaans is of Dutch origin... I guess South Africa is part of Europe.

[Radik Safin]

Originally Posted by Davy-040

Afrikaans is of Dutch origin...

Ja, ja, natürlich.
The origin of the Spanish word «zabata» and the French word «sabot» /shoe/.
https://www.metacafe.com/watch/12230878/sabot/

[psv]

Ironically Western Turkish act more European than Russians. Eastern turks are more middle eastern like.

Russians are truly something different.