𐰖𐰆𐰞

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yōl (“road”). Compare Bashkir юл (yul, “road”), Turkish yol (“road, way”), Turkmen ýōl (“road”), Yakut суол (suol, “road”).

Noun

𐰖𐰆𐰞 (yol)

1. road, a way used for travelling between places

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yo:l”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 917
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill