Where does “küllük” come from?

küllük (Turkish) comes from Turkish kül, from Ottoman Turkish قول, from Old Anatolian Turkish قل, from Proto-Turkic kül — ash.

küllük (Turkish): ashtray

Definitions

  1. ashtray

Ancestry of “küllük”, step by step

küllük traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish kül

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishkülash
2Ottoman Turkishقولservant; arm; branch, section, division
3Old Anatolian Turkishقلslave
4Proto-Turkickülash

via Proto-Afro-Asiatic kul-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Afro-Asiatickul-—
Every word from Proto-Turkic kül →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish قل →Every word from Ottoman Turkish قول →
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