Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From *jilek, from Proto-Turkic *jegelek.

Immediately cognate with Bashkir еләк (yelək), Tatar җиләк (ciläk), Kazakh жидек (jidek), Karachay-Balkar джилек (cilek), Khakas чистек (çistek).

Compare also Armenian ելակ (elak), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun edit

јилек (ǰilek)

  1. berry

References edit

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “јилек”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN