𐰴𐰞𐰃-

kalı-

Meaning:
rise into the air; fly
Details:

kalı- denotes upward movement into the air and, especially in bird contexts, flying or flying away. Later attestations also show the meanings “leap, jump” and, of a horse, “buck”.

The vowel length is uncertain. The verb is distinct from kal- “remain” and kala- “heap up”. The noun kalık “air, visible sky” and the extended verbs kalık- ~ kalk- are generally assigned to the same word family.

In modern languages

Select a region to see the cognate.
Language Cognate
Turkmen gal
Turkish (Azerbaijan) -
Turkish (Türkiye) -
Salar -
Gagauz -
Crimean -
Uyghur -
Uzbek -
Kazakh -
Nogai -
Siberian Tatar -
Kyrgyz -
Altai kalıır
Alan -
Kumyk -
Tatar -
Bashkir -
Tıva xalıır
Khakas xalı
Sakha (Yakut, Dolgan) kılıy
Khalaj -
Chuvash -

Examples

Irıq Bitig
2

Translations

German:
in die Luft steigen; fliegen
Russian:
подниматься в воздух; лететь
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
havaya qalxmaq; uçmaq
Turkish (Türkiye):
havaya yükselmek; uçmak
  • Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish p. 617
    kalı:- originally ‘to rise in the air’, hence ‘to jump’, and the like. Survives only(?) in NE several languages kalı- R II 239; Tuv. xalı- ‘to jump’, and SW Tkm. ğal-. Türkü viii ff. (a man’s horse tired; he met a swan, and mounted its wings and) anı:n kalı:yu: barı:-pan ‘so rose in the air and went off’ IrkB 35; (the falcon . . .) kalı:yu: barmı:ş do. 44: Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. Hüen-ts. 1878-9 (kalaŋur-): Xak. xi at kalı:dı: waṯaba’l-faras wa camaḥa ‘the horse bucked and ran away’ Kaş. III 272 (kalı:r, kalı:ma:k): KB kayada kalığlı bu ımğa teke ‘the wild goats (Hend.) jumping on the rocks’ 5373 (thus the Vienna MS., prob. correctly, the other MSS. have yorığlı which occurs in the same position in the two preceding lines but is inappropriate here).