𐰘𐰅𐰠
yēl
Meaning:
mane
yel “mane” is distinct from the homonymous yel “wind”. Its relationship to back-vowel yal “mane, withers” is disputed: one analysis reconstructs separate *jēl and *jāl, while another regards the front vowel as secondary. The quantity of the vowel in the attested Old Turkic word is not securely established.
Examples
Translations
German:
Mähne
Russian:
грива
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
yal
Turkish (Türkiye):
yele
Bibliography 5
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicp. 390bp. 390b
yalï ‘mane’ (CCb) [<*yalïġ, cf. CL 924b; karL yała] / yal (QT4–5, MAv, QA, AH, KT, TZ 33v9, MuG, BV) / yel (QT5) / ǰal (ON); aṭ yalï ‘horse’s mane’ (QT4) / aṭ yeli (QT5); kök ǰalluġ bir ärkäk böri ‘a male wolf with a blue mane’ (ON); Yalïn ürpärtti ärkäk tawuq ‘The rooster raised its hackles’ (MAv) -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 886bp. 886b
²yel Mähne || yele (s./bk. Mo. del) -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagesp. 470p. 470
*dḗli mane; collar: Tung. *delü-n; Mong. *del; Turk. *jēl; Jpn. *(d)iárì.
PTung. *delü-n mane (грива): Evk. delin; Man. delun; SMan. delən, dulun (2281); Nan. derbini (?).
◊ TMC 1, 232. The Nan. form may be < Mong. (Bur. delben).
PMong. *del mane, crest (грива, холка): MMong. del (HY 15, SH), dil- (IM), dil (MA); WMong. del (L 247); Kh. del; Bur. delben; Kalm. del; Ord. del; Dag. delhur (Tog. Алаг. 136) delin (MD 136); S.-Yugh. del.
◊ KW 74, 85, MGCD 212.
PTurk. *jēl 1 mane 2 feather (1 грива 2 перо): OTurk. jel 1 (OUygh.); Karakh. jel 1 (MK); Tur. jele 1; Gag. jelä 1; Az. läläk 2; Turkm. jelek 2; Khal. jälǟk 2; Krm. lelek 2; SUygh. ǯeĺi 1; Khak. čilen 1; Tv. čel 1; Tof. čel 1; Chuv. śilɣe 1; Yak. siel 1.
◊ VEWT 181, TMN 4, 188–189, EDT 916, ЭСТЯ 4, 85–86 (confused with *jāl, v. sub *dālV), Лексика 147, 566. The Oghuz name of ‘feather’ (jelek / lelek, see ЭСТЯ 4, 179) is probably derived from this root; perhaps also *jel-ke ‘back of head (including the neck)’, see VEWT 196, ЭСТЯ 4, 181.
PJpn. *(d)iárì collar (воротник): MJpn. eri; Tok. eri; Kyo. eri; Kag. eri.
◊ ILTT 393.
‖ EAS 52, KW 74, 85, Poppe 22, 75, АПиПЯ 72, 287, Лексика 147; TMN 4, 106 (“…unklar”). TM is hardly < Mong., despite Doerfer MT 76, Rozycki 58. The diphthong in Jpn. may indeed indicate PA *dējli. Cf. *dālV. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishp. 924bp. 917ap. 924b
(D) 1 yalığ (ḏ-) syn. w. ya:l and obviously cognate, but morphologically obscure, since -ığ is not a recognized Den. Suff. N.o.a.b. Xak. xi yalığ ‘urfu’l-dīk ‘a cock’s comb’, hence one says takuk yalığı:; yalığ also ‘a horse’s mane’ (‘urf); luğa fī ya:l, yé:l aṣaḥḥ minhumā Kaş. III 13 (the clear implication of the last sentence is that both ya:l and yé:l were used for ‘mane’, but that yalığ was a more correct form than either): (Kom. xiv see ya:l: Osm. xvi to xviii see ya:l). p. 917aS 2 yé:l See 1 yalığ Xak. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 181ap. 181a
*jāl, jāl (< ? *jajl): tar. jajl, jāl ‘Mähne’, mtü. trkm. jāl ‘Mähne, грива’, čag. az. usw. jal ‘Mähne’, mtü. jal-yγ ‘Mähne des Pferdes’, krč. kzk. ǯal, blk. zal-ka, šor. čal, kaz. jalə, jak. siäl, soj. čel ‘грива’; osm. jälä ‘Mähne’; küär. jäl-äk, čag. tar. jäl-kä ‘Nacken’, kzk. žel-kä id., čuv. śil-χe ‘Mähne’; sag. čel-in ‘Mähne’, hak. čilin ~ mo.: nach Poppe 97 zu trennen: trkm. jāl ‘Mähne’, jak. sāl ‘Kammfett, das Fett unter der Mähne’, ‘Mähne’ ~ mo. dalu ‘Schulterblatt’, kalm. dalŋ ‘Widerrist, Nacken’ und (Poppe 75) osm. jälä ‘Mähne’, čuv. śil-śe, jak. siäl ‘Mähne’ ~ mong. dēl id., tung. dēlin!
