yaylak
Turkish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editEquivalent to yay + -la + -ak; from Ottoman Turkish یایلاق (yaylak), یایلا (yayla),[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yāy (“summer”),[2] whence also Ottoman Turkish یای (yay).
Noun
edityaylak (definite accusative yaylağı, plural yaylaklar)
Descendants
edit- → Armenian: յայլա (yayla)
References
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یایلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2196
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill