туулу

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Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tāg, equivalent to туу (tuu, mountain) +‎ -лу (-lu, ornative suffix). Cognate with Kyrgyz тоолуу (tooluu), Kazakh таулы (tauly), Karachay-Balkar таулу (taulu), Kumyk тавлу (tawlu), Bashkir таулы (tawlı), Tatar таулы (tawlı), Azerbaijani dağlı, Turkish dağlı, Shor тағлығ, Khakas тағлығ (tağlığ), Tuvan даглыг (daglıg), etc.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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туулу (tuulu) (ornative)

  1. mountainous