Where does “دلو” come from?

دلو (Old Anatolian Turkish) comes from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe — mad, crazy.

دلو (Old Anatolian Turkish): mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, bonkers, not sane, exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind, mentally deranged

Definitions

  1. mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, bonkers, not sane, exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind, mentally deranged

Ancestry of “دلو”, step by step

دلو traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Turkic *tēlbe

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Turkic*tēlbemad, crazy

via Old Anatolian Turkish دلمك

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Anatolian Turkishدلمك

via Old Anatolian Turkish ـو

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Anatolian Turkishـو

Words derived from “دلو

Every word from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe