ایلقی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • ییلقی (yılkı)

Etymology

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

Noun

ایلقی • (ılkı)

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

Descendants

  • Turkish: yılkı

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