Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ـلق.
Suffix
-luk (Cyrillic spelling -лук)
- (informal) Functions similarly to -nje, -ost and -ština.
- divljaluk — divljanje
- bezobràzluk — bezobràština, bezòbraznōst
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian terms suffixed with -luk
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ـلق (-luk).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-luk
- Form of -lik after the vowels O / U.
- soğuk (“cold”) + -luk → soğukluk (“coldness”)
- çocuk (“child”) + -luk → çocukluk (“childhood”)
- dost (“friend”) + -luk → dostluk (“friendship”)
- tuz (“salt”) + -luk → tuzluk (“caster”)
- sonsuz (“endless”) + -luk → sonsuzluk (“eternity”)