𐰉𐰞𐰶

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bialïk (“city, fortress”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (balïq, “town”), Karakhanid بَلِقْ (balïq, “stronghold, town”). Compare Mongolian ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ (balɣasu, “city”), a Turkic borrowing.

Noun

𐰉𐰞𐰶 (balïq)

1. town

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “balık”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 335 & 336
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bialɨk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill