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Southern Altai
Etymology
From *jilek, from Proto-Turkic *jegelek.
Immediately cognate with
Bashkir еләк (yelək),
Tatar җиләк (ciläk),
Kazakh жидек (jidek),
Karachay-Balkar джилек (cilek), Khakas чистек (çistek).
Compare also Armenian ելակ (elak), a Turkic borrowing.
Noun
јилек • (ǰilek)
- berry
References
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “јилек”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN