𐰖𐰆𐰞

Old Turkic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yōl (“road”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫул (śul), Khalaj yôl, Turkish yol (“road, way”), Turkmen ýōl (“road”), Uzbek yoʻl, Bashkir юл (yul, “road”), Yakut суол (suol, “road”).

Noun

𐰖𐰆𐰞 (yol)

  1. road, a way used for travelling between places
    • 9th century CE, Irk Bitig, Omen 2
      𐰀𐰞𐰀:𐱃𐰞𐰍:𐰖𐰆𐰞:𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃:𐰢𐰤
      āla:atlïɣ:yol:teŋri:men
      I am the road god with a dappled horse.

Derived terms
  • 𐰖𐰆𐰞𐰃 (yolï, “times”)
  • 𐰖𐰆𐰞𐰍 (yolluɣ, “lucky; Yollug Tegin”)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1968) “yol”, in A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (Uralic and Altaic Series; 69), Bloomington: Indiana University, →ISBN, page 406
  • Tekin, Talât (1993) “yol”, in Irk Bitig: The Book of Omens, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 69
  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yo:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 917
  • Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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