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Southern Altai
Etymology
From Borrowed from Persian فتیله with metathesis, from Arabic فَتِيلَة (fatīla).
Compare with
Kazakh білте (bılte),
Bashkir филтә (filtə),
Crimean Tatar melte,
Kumyk мелте (melte, “wick”),
Uzbek pilta (“wick”),
Uyghur پىلتە (pilte, “wick”);
also
Tajik пилта (pilta, “wick”).
Noun
мылта • (mïlta)
- wick
References
- Räsänen, Martti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachen (in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, page 144