دلكو

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Old Anatolian Turkish

Alternative forms

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)

  1. fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: tülkü
  • Ottoman Turkish: تلكی (tilki), دلكو (dilkü)

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