мылта

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Borrowed from Persian فتیله with metathesis, from Arabic فَتِيلَة (fatīla).

Compare with Kazakh білте (bılte), Bashkir филтә (filtə), Crimean Tatar melte, Kumyk мелте (melte, “wick”), Uzbek pilta (“wick”), Uyghur پىلتە (pilte, “wick”); also Tajik пилта (pilta, “wick”).

Noun

мылта • (mïlta)

1. wick

Alternative forms

• мулта (multa)

References

• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 144