Southern Altai edit

Etymology edit

From *ülkär "Pleiades", possibly from Proto-Turkic *ül- (to divide).

Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (Ülkär, Pleiades); Kazakh Үркер (Ürker), Kyrgyz Үркөр (Ürkör), Kumyk Уьлкер (Ülker), Uzbek Hulkar, Azerbaijani Ülkər, Turkish Ülker, Khakas Ӱлгер (Ülger), Yakut Үргэл (Ürgel, Pleiades).

Proper noun edit

ӱлгер (ülger)

  1. Pleiades

References edit

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