Where does “Aktau” come from?

Aktau (English) comes from Kazakh Ақтау, from Kazakh тау, from Common Kypchak *taw, from Proto-Turkic tāg — mountain.

Aktau (English): A city (population 160,000), Kazakhstan's main seaport on the Caspian Sea. Official city name 1963-64 and since 1991

Definitions

  1. A city (population 160,000), Kazakhstan's main seaport on the Caspian Sea. Official city name 1963-64 and since 1991

Ancestry of “Aktau”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1KazakhАқтауwhitish
2Kazakhтауmountain
3Common Kypchak*taw—
4Proto-Turkictāgmountain
Every word from Proto-Turkic tāg →Every word from Common Kypchak *taw →Every word from Kazakh тау →