Yakut edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *silk- (to shake).[1] See Bashkir һелкеү (helkew, to shake) for cognates.

Verb edit

илк (ilk)

  1. (transitive) to cast off, to discard, to throw away
    See synonyms at бырах (bıraq).

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*silk-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill