𐰖𐰃𐰞𐰣
Old Turkic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yï̄lan (“snake”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫӗлен (śĕlen), Khalaj yilân, Turkish yılan (“snake”), Uzbek ilon, Bashkir йылан (yılan), Tuvan чылан (çılan).
Noun
𐰖𐰃𐰞𐰣 (yïlan)
References
- Tekin, Talât (1993) “yıl(a)n”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 69
- Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yıla:n”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 930
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jɨ̄l-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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