Where does “yıl” come from?
yıl (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ییل, from Proto-Turkic yïl — year.
yıl (Turkish): year; second-person singular imperative of yılmak
Definitions
- year; second-person singular imperative of yılmak
Ancestry of “yıl”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | ییل | year |
| 2 | Proto-Turkic | yïl | year |