улу

Southern Altai

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ulug (“big, great”). Cognate with Karachay-Balkar уллу (ullu), Kyrgyz улуу (uluu), Tatar олы (olı), Khakas улуғ (uluğ), Shor улуғ, Western Yugur uluğ, Kumyk уллу (ullu), Karaim ulu, Turkmen uly, Turkish ulu (“great”).

Adjective

улу • (ulu)

1. great
2. big, large

Derived terms

• улула- (ulula-)
• улулук (ululuk)

References

• N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “улу”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN
• Radloff, Friedrich Wilhelm (1893–1911) Опыт словаря тюркских наречий – Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-Dialecte [Attempt at a Lexicon of the Turkic Dialects] (overall work in German and Russian), Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 1695 pages