Where does “yılan gömleği” come from?

yılan gömleği (Turkish) comes from Turkish gömlek, from Proto-Turkic *köyŋelek, from Proto-Turkic *köŋül — heart.

yılan gömleği (Turkish): slough, the skin shed by a snake

Definitions

  1. slough, the skin shed by a snake

Ancestry of “yılan gömleği”, step by step

yılan gömleği traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish gömlek

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishgömlekshirt; snake's skin
2Proto-Turkic*köyŋelek—
3Proto-Turkic*köŋülheart

via Turkish yılan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyılansnake; present participle of yılmak
2Ottoman Turkishییلانsnake, serpent, any legless, scaly reptile of the suborder Serpentes, with a fork-shaped tongue
3Proto-Turkic*yï̄lansnake
Every word from Proto-Turkic *köŋül →Every word from Proto-Turkic *köyŋelek →Every word from Turkish gömlek →