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Old Anatolian Turkish
- دلكی (dilki) (later spelling)
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tülki (“fox”). Cognate to Khakas тӱлгӱ (tülgü, “fox”), Chuvash тилӗ (tilĕ, “fox”), Tuvan дилги (dilgi, “fox”), Old Turkic (tilkü).
Noun
دلكو (dilkü)
- fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Descendants
References
- “dilkü, (dilgü, dilki)”, in XIII. Yüzyılından Beri Türkiye Türkçesiyle Yazılmış Kitaplarından Toplanan Tanıklarıyle Tarama Sözlüğü (Türk Dil Kurumu yayınları; 212) (in Turkish), volume 2, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1965, page 1153
- Kanar, Mehmet (2018) “dilkü”, in Eski Anadolu Türkçesi Sözlüğü [Old Anatolian Turkish Dictionary] (in Turkish), 2nd edition, Istanbul: Say Yayınları, page 207ab