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𐰠𐰏

𐰠𐰏

Old Turkic

Noun

𐰠𐰏 (elig)

  1. (anatomy) hand

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Compare Turkish elli (fifty).

Numeral

𐰠𐰏 (el(l)ig)

  1. (cardinal) fifty

References

  • Clauson, Gerard (1972) An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 140, 141
  • Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *el, -ig”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill