yaylak
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Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Equivalent to yay + -la + -ak; from Ottoman Turkish یایلاق (yaylak), یایلا (yayla),[1] ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yāy (“summer”),[2] whence also Ottoman Turkish یای (yay).
Noun[edit]
yaylak (definite accusative yaylağı, plural yaylaklar)
Descendants[edit]
- → Armenian: յայլա (yayla)
References[edit]
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یایلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2196
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jāj”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill