Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/kelen

Reconstruction
Relatively secure. Daur palatalization is irregular but also found in other terms.

Etymology
Likely related somehow to 🇨🇬, which Clauson however considers neither of Turkic origin nor related to the Mongolian word, and 🇨🇬.

Another attractive parallel is 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), but mainstream linguistics presumes no relation with Uralic.

Noun

 * 1) tongue
 * 2) language

Descendants

 * Mongolian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 克勒
 * Mongolian:
 * Classical:
 * Ordos: /kʰele/
 * Monguor:
 * Bonan:
 * Gansu:
 * Qinghai:
 * Monguor:
 * Bonan:
 * Gansu:
 * Qinghai:
 * Monguor:
 * Bonan:
 * Gansu:
 * Qinghai:
 * Gansu:
 * Qinghai: