әлде

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic الدە
Cyrillic әлде
Latin älde

Etymology

Of disputed origin:

  • Per Radlov, a native Turkic word, formed from interjection ә (ä)
  • Räsänen compares it with Classical Mongolian [script needed] (ele, “yes, of course”)
  • Akhmetyanov derives it from Arabic أَلَا (ʔalā, “is it not”), أَلَّا (ʔallā, “in order not to”)[1]

Cognate with Bashkir әллә (əllə), Kyrgyz алда (alda), Uzbek alla-, etc.

Conjunction

әлде • (älde)

  1. or

References

  1. ^ Axmetʹjanov, R. G. (2015), “әлде”, in Татар теленең этимологик сүзлеге / Этимологический словарь татарского языка [Tatar etymological dictionary] (in Tatar), Kazan: Magarif-Vakyt, →ISBN
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