10-10-2021, 03:26 PM
SÇSU (SICAKSU / HOTWATER, > "hot water" and "thermal water")
The author not only used this complex alphabet to make the texts difficult to read, she/he also abbreviated many words. We can see one of the typical example of these abbreviations on page 77r. And we can see that, the author drew a "closed water channel" with water discharge T-connection parts for several places in the drawing on page 77r, and wrote some words beside this channel parts, being separate from each other.
One of these words is the SÇSU abbreviation-word.
This word was written between two of the water discharge sections in the water channel drawing.
Earlier, we have read the word meaning "cold water" in another water outlet section of the same channel.
Also, just next to this closed water channel drawing, another word we were read as like "closed waterway".
The word SÇSU is an abbreviation which that obtained by two combining words. The ending part of the word is the Turkish word SU (+SU), which means WATER in English. The first word (which is the root of the word) was written as SÇ (SÇ+) abbreviation. This word pronounced as SICAK (HOT, HOT SPRINGS) in Turkey Turkish today. But the author should probably be pronouncing this word as SIÇAK or SÇAK. Because she/he shortened it as SÇ+.
As with many other words, this word (SICAK) has different forms in different dialects of the Turkish language, and the pronunciation of SICAK is one of them. In the Yadigâr-ı İbni Şerif manuscript before 1412, this word is used as "isicaḳ su". In some other medieval manuscripts, this word was written as "issicak", "sicak", "ısıcağı" and as "ısıcağına" (ısıcağ-) too.The word SICAK/SIÇAK has evolved from the word "issicek" and "issıcak" (hot, temperature, thermal springs, etc.) form in Turkey Turkish. The Turkish word is derived from the Turkish word ISSI/İSSİ (ISI/İSİ), (which has the same meaning in Turkey Turkish), with the suffix -çAk (-ÇAK). You can see the detailed information in this dictionary link:
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In other words, while this word evolved from ISSIÇAK to ISIÇAK form, and the word have been lost its first vowel ( I -) and took the form of SIÇAK and then change as SICAK in time.
You can see the meaning content of the word ISSI-ÇAK (SIÇAK / SICAK) on the following pages (such as "hot" and "thermal / thermal spring"):
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As a result, the author's used many abbreviations, and she/he doing this probably must have been made especially to make writing more difficult to read. The author used the word SÇSU. This word was used to say SÇAK+SU / ISSIÇAK+SU in this abbreviation form.