يەل

Uyghur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yẹl.[1][2] Cognates with Southern Altai јел (ǰel), Kumyk ел (yel), Turkish yel.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɛl/

Noun

يەل • (yel) (plural يەللەر (yeller))

  1. air
  2. (pathology) cold, chill
  3. (pathology) rash, measles
  4. (obsolete) wind

References
  1. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “1 yé:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 916
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jẹl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Further reading
  • Schwarz, Henry G. (1992) An Uyghur-English Dictionary (East Asian Research Aids & Translations; 3), Bellingham, Washington: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, →ISBN
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