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 (“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