𐰉𐰞𐰶

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bialɨk (“city, fortress”). Cognate with Old Uyghur [script needed] (balïq, “town”), Karakhanid [script needed] (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, pages 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
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