Where does “kül” come from?

kül (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Old Turkic kül, from Proto-Turkic kül — ash.

Ancestry of “kül”, step by step

kül traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Turkic kül

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Turkickül
2Proto-Turkickülash

via Arabic كُلّ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicكُلّeach, every, whole, all

Words derived from “kül

Every word from Proto-Turkic külEvery word from Old Turkic kül