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by geuis 1460 days ago
Similar root words somewhere in the past. Caca in Spanish means the same thing.
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But the oddity is that Turkish isn't related to the Romance languages.
No, but several of the earlier languages in Anatolia did have Into-European roots as did some of the surrounding languages, such as Persian. It could easily be a loan word.

*kakka- also kaka-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to defecate." According to Watkins, "imitative of glottal closure during defecation."

"Secundinus der Kacker" in German