Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bāla

*bāla

1. young animal
2. child
3. wife's younger sister
4. younger relative

• *bāl-dɨŕ
• *bāla-pan

• Medieval
  • Karakhanid: [script needed] (bala), [script needed] (baldïz)
  • Old Turkic
    • Orkhon: [script needed] (baldïz)
    • Old Uyghur: [script needed] (baltïz)
• Oghuz
  • West Oghuz
    • Azerbaijani: bala
    • Gagauz: baldıska
    • Ottoman Turkish: بالا‎ (bala)
      • Turkish: bala (dialectal)
  • Salar
    • Salar: [script needed] (bala)
  • East Oghuz
    • Turkmen: bala
• Kipchak
  • West Kipchak
    • Crimean Tatar: bala
    • Karachay-Balkar: бала (bala)
    • Kumyk: бала (bala)
  • North Kipchak
    • Bashkir: бала (bala)
    • Tatar: бала (bala)
  • South Kipchak
    • Caspian
      • Kazakh: бала (bala)
      • Karakalpak бала (bala)/ bala
      • Nogai бала (bala)
    • Kyrgyz-Kipchak
      • Kyrgyz: бала (bala)
      • Southern Altai: бала (bala)
• Karluk:
  • Chagatai: [script needed] (bala)
    • Uzbek: bola
    • Uyghur: بالا‎ (bala)
• Siberian
  • North Siberian
    • Dolgan: балыс (balïs)
    • Yakut: балыс (balıs)
  • South Siberian
    • Western Yugur: mïla
    • Yenisei Turkic
      • Khakas: пала (pala)
      • Shor: пала (pala)
• Oghur:
  • Chuvash: пултӑр (pultăr)

• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bāla”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill