Where does “اَيْلا” come from?

اَيْلا (Old Anatolian Turkish) comes from Old Turkic anlayu, from Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆, from Proto-Turkic bu — this.

Ancestry of “اَيْلا”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Turkicanlayu
2Old Turkic𐰉𐰆this
3Proto-Turkicbuthis
Every word from Proto-Turkic bu