тереклек

Bashkir

Etymology

Synchronously may be seen to derive from тере (tere, “alive”). However, appears to have been borrowed from a written Karluk source (e.g. from Chagatai; compare the Uzbek and Uighur cognates below). The native Kypchak form in Bashkir should be *терелек (*terelek), as in Kyrgyz тирилик (tirilik, “life”).

Compare to Old Uyghur [script needed] (tiriglik, “life”);^[1] Uzbek tiriklik (“life”), Uyghur تىرىكلىك (tiriklik, “life, the state of being alive”). See Proto-Turkic *dīri- (“to live; alive”) for more.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tɪ̞.rɪ̞kˈlɪ̞k]
Hyphenation: те‧рек‧лек

Adjective

тереклек • (tereklek)

(biological) life
Ерҙән ситтәге тереклек.
Yerźən sittəge tereklek.
Extraterrestrial life.

References

^ Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 562

[1] Nadeljajev, V. M.; Nasilov, D. M.; Tenišev, E. R.; Ščerbak, A. M., editors (1969), Drevnetjurkskij slovarʹ [Dictionary of Old Turkic] (in Russian), Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, Nauka, page 562

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