ايلا

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Likely inherited from Common Turkic *anlayu through crasis and metathesis. The alternative theory, being that it's a crasis of *an-ile, is impossible due to historical phonetics, see بِلا (bilē), بِرْلا (birlē, “with”).

Adverb

اَيْلا (eylē)

1. (Oghuz) like that
   • [1072–4, مَحْمُود الكَاشْغَرِيّ [maḥmūd al-kāšḡariyy], دِيوَانِ لُغَاتِ ٱلتُرْك [dīwāni luḡāti t-turk], volume 1 (in Arabic), عامره, published 1917, page 103:

     اَيْلا — بِالْغُزِّيَّةِ. وَمَعْناهُ «كَذٰلِكَ». يُقالُ «اَيْلا قِلْغِلْ» اِيْ اِفْعَلْ كَذا.

     ʔaylā — bi-l-ḡuzziyyati. wa-maʕnāhu “ka-ḏālika”. yuqālu “ʔaylā qilḡil” ʔī ʔifʕal kaḏā.

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Descendants

• Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (eyle)
  • Azerbaijani: elə
  • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (eyle)
    • Turkish: öyle
• Salar: ele, eliği
• Turkmen: eýle

Etymology 2

Oghuz form of اُذْلَكْ (öðleg) ultimately inherited from Common Turkic *ödleg.

Noun

اُيْلا (öylē)

1. (Oghuz) noon
   • [1072–4, مَحْمُود الكَاشْغَرِيّ [maḥmūd al-kāšḡariyy], دِيوَانِ لُغَاتِ ٱلتُرْك [dīwāni luḡāti t-turk], volume 1 (in Arabic), عامره, published 1917, page 103:

     اُيْلا — اَلْظُهْرُ. بِالْغُزِّيَّةِ. وَقِفْجاقْ تَجْعَلُ الْياءَ زاياً فَتَقُولُ «اُزْلا».

     ʔuylā — ʔalẓuhru. bi-l-ḡuzziyyati. wa-qifjāq tajʕalu l-yāʔa zāyan fa-taqūlu “ʔuzlā”.

     Öyle — the noon. Among the Oghuz. The Kipchak make the yah into zayn and say özle.]

Descendants

• Old Anatolian Turkish: [script needed] (öyle)
  • Azerbaijani: öyle
  • Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (öyle, öğle)
    • Turkish: öğle
• Salar: öyle
• Turkmen: öýle

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “öḏleg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 272

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 102, 113