ایلقی

ایلقی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• ییلقی‎ (yılqı)

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yɨlkɨ (“age, grown-up animal”).[1]

Noun

ایلقی • (ilqï)

1. a herd of brood mares and stallions with their colts loose in the fields
2. wild horse
3. wild colt

Descendants

• Turkish: yılkı

Related terms

• ییل‎ (yıl, “year”)

References

1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jɨlkɨ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ایلقی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 305