сарлык
Southern Altai
Noun
сарлык • (sarlık)
- yak
See also
- жак (žak)
Tuvan
Etymology
Cognate with Southern Altai сарлык (sarlïk), Khakas сарлых (sarlıx); probably borrowed into Mongolic languages such as Mongolian сарлаг (sarlag).
Derived by Bazin from *сар (*sar, “butter”) + -лык (-lık), deriving the former from саржаг (saržag, “butter”). [1]
However Stachowski rejects this etymology, and connects the word to Southern Altai сарадак (saradak, “a year old wapiti fawn”) (and cognates), which he ultimately derives ultimately from Proto-Turkic *čara [2].
Thus the word would be a doublet of шары (šarı, “ox”), however Tuvan ш- (š-) is usually taken to be the regular reflex of Proto-Turkic *č- rather than Tuvan с- (s-).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sarlɯk/
Noun
сарлык • (sarlık)
- yak
References
- Louis Bazin, Les noms du 'yak' chez les peuples turcs et mongols, Berlin 1970
- Marek Stachowski Über einige altaische Lehnwörter in den Jenissej-Sprachen, Krakow 1996