юла

Unknown. Theories include:

• Simplified from *вьюла́ (*vʹjulá) from вить (vitʹ)
• Related to юр (jur, “a spot stirred up by currents or bypassers etc.”), ю́ркий (júrkij, “agile, brisk”), Proto-Slavic *juriti (“to stir up”), Serbo-Croatian júriti (“to chivvy”), Polish jurzyć (“to stir up”), of Turkic origin represented by yürümek (“to march forward”)
• Related to Proto-Slavic *juditi, Polish judzić (“to instigate”)
• Borrowed from a descendant of Old Norse hjól (“wheel”)

• IPA^(key): [jʊˈɫa]

юла

юла́ • (julá) f inan or f anim (genitive юлы́, nominative plural юлы́, genitive plural юл)

1. spinning top (toy)
2. woodlark

• волчо́к (volčók)
• лесно́й жа́воронок (lesnój žávoronok)

• юли́ть impf (julítʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “юла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress