يلن

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹlin (“udder”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫилӗ (śilĕ), Azerbaijani yelin, Bashkir елен (yelen) and Yakut сирин (sirin).

Noun

يلِنْ (yélin)

1. (zootomy) udder

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yélin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 930
• Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 196

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 23