Where does “saqallı” come from?

saqallı (Crimean Tatar) comes from Crimean Tatar saqal, from Old Turkic sakal, from Proto-Turkic sakal — beard.

saqallı (Crimean Tatar): bearded

Definitions

  1. bearded

Ancestry of “saqallı”, step by step

saqallı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Crimean Tatar saqal

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Crimean Tatarsaqalbeard
2Old Turkicsakal—
3Proto-Turkicsakalbeard

via Crimean Tatar lı

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Crimean Tatarlı—
Every word from Proto-Turkic sakal →Every word from Old Turkic sakal →Every word from Crimean Tatar saqal →