Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *yïlkï (age, grown-up animal).[1]

Noun

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ایلقی (ilqï)

  1. a herd of brood mares and stallions with their colts loose in the fields
  2. wild horse
  3. wild colt
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Descendants

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  • Turkish: yılkı

References

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