сылу

Southern Altai

Etymology

From *sïlïğ/silig (“beauty, beautiful”).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (silik, “clean; noble”); Tatar сылу (sılu), Kazakh сұлу (sūlu), Kyrgyz сулуу (suluu), Uzbek suluv (“beautiful, handsome”); Khakas сіліг (sìlìg, “beautiful”).

Adjective

сылу • (sïlu)

1. beautiful

References

L. T. Rjumina-Syrkaševa, editor (1995), “сылу”, in Teleutsko-russkij slovarʹ [Teleut–Russian Dictionary], Kemerovo: N. A. Kučigaševa, →ISBN