Turk vs Turkic

Turk

adj
  • Synonym of Turkic 

  • Synonym of Turkish 

name
  • A surname. 

noun
  • A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina. 

  • A Turkish horse. 

  • The plum curculio. 

  • A person from Turkey or of Turkish ethnic descent. 

  • A person from Llanelli, Wales. 

  • a Christian horse-archer in Crusader army (Turcopole). 

  • A speaker of the various Turkic languages. 

Turkic

adj
  • Of or relating to this language group or the people who speak it. 

name
  • The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azeri, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash, Yakut, and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family. 

  • Any branch of that family. 

  • Any language of that family. 

How often have the words Turk and Turkic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )