сылу

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Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From *sïlïğ/silig (beauty, beautiful).

Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (silik, clean; noble); Tatar сылу (sılu), Kazakh сұлу (sūlu), Kyrgyz сулуу (suluu), Uzbek suluv (beautiful, handsome); Khakas сіліг (sìlìg, beautiful).

Adjective

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сылу (sïlu)

  1. beautiful

References

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L. T. Rjumina-Syrkaševa, editor (1995), “сылу”, in Teleutsko-russkij slovarʹ, Kemerovo: N. A. Kučigaševa, →ISBN