𐰘𐰃𐰠

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yēl (“mane”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫилхе (śilh̬e), Turkish yele, Uzbek yol, Bashkir ял (yal), Yakut сиэл (siel). Compare also Mongolian дэл (del), Manchu ᡩᡝᠯᡠᠨ (delun) and Persian یال (yâl).

Noun

𐰘𐰃𐰠 (yél)

1. (zootomy) mane
   • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 16

     𐰘𐰃𐰠𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐰴𐰆𐰑𐰆𐰺𐰽𐰆𐰍𐰃𐰭𐰣𐰃𐰭𐰀:𐱅𐰏𐰃:𐰖𐰍𐰺𐰃𐰯𐰣:𐰴𐰢𐰽𐰖𐰆:𐰆𐰢𐰀𐱃𐰃𐰣:𐱃𐰆𐰺𐰆𐰺:𐱅𐰃𐰼

     yéliŋe:qudursuɣïŋa:tegi:yaɣrïpan:qamšayu:umatïn:turur:tér

     (The horse), having galled up to its mane (and) its tail, stands still without being able to move, it says.

References

• Tekin, Talât (1993) “yil”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 69
• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “ya:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 916
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jēl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill