Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/yül-

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

Alternative reconstructions

• *yüli-

Etymology

Considering it doesn't exist in Old Turkic or Chuvash and its phonetic and semantic similarity, it may be a later front variant of *yol- (“to pluck”).

Verb

*yül-

1. (transitive) to shave
2. (transitive) to tear off

Descendants

• Common Turkic:

• Oghuz:
  • West Oghuz:
    • Old Anatolian Turkish: يلمك
      • ⇒ Azerbaijani: ülgüc
      • Ottoman Turkish: يولومك (yülümek), يوليمك (yülimek), [script needed] (yülütmek)
        • Turkish: yülümek
  • Salar: yiligüsi
  • Turkmen: yülmek
• Karluk:
  • Karakhanid: يُليٖماكْ (yülimēk)
• Kipchak:
  • North Kipchak:
    • Tatar: [script needed] (jöle-, “to tear off”) (dialectal)
  • West Kipchak:
    • Karachay-Balkar: [script needed] (žülü-)
    • Karaim: [script needed] (ülü-)
    • Kumyk: [script needed] (yülü-)
• Siberian:
  • North Siberian:
    • Dolgan: һүл (“to tear off”)
    • Yakut: сүл (sül, “to tear off”)
  • South Siberian:
    • Sayan Turkic:
      • Tuvan: [script needed] (čülü-)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yüli:-”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 919
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yülümek”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jül-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill