يلن

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹlin (“udder”). Cognate with Chuvash ҫилӗ (śilĕ), Azerbaijani yelin, Bashkir елен (yelen) and Yakut сирин (sirin).

Noun

يلِنْ (yélin)

(zootomy) udder

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yélin”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 930
Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 196

Further reading

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume III, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 23

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