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

  1. year; second-person singular imperative of yılmak

Ancestry of “yıl”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishییلyear
2Proto-Turkicyïlyear

Words derived from “yıl”

Every word from Proto-Turkic yïl →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ییل →