Talk:ahıl

, I believe 🇨🇬 is a better fit. See the Ottoman cognate:,. --Vahag (talk) 18:56, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
 * 'wife' -> 'old woman' -> 'old in general'? Allahverdi Verdizade (talk) 19:01, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
 * I was thinking "settled" > "domesticated, possessed with a family" > "not young and wild anymore". --Vahag (talk) 19:42, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
 * The only problem is that all of that corresponds to and . The short Arabic /a/ is normally rendered by <ə> in Azerbaijani. The Persian cognate of the Arabic term I put in as the etymon, on the other hand, has the sense 'a woman in want of a husband', which is in line for the semantic shift scheme above. Also, the tendency to shift the senses between the concepts 'old woman' and 'wife', as in  and . And the (anecdotal) evidence that is provided by the fact that ahıl qadınlar 'aging women' yields twice the amount of hits of ahıl kişilər 'aging men'. Allahverdi Verdizade (talk) 20:13, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
 * derives from Arabic āhil "settled"., is there an Arabic word of that shape? --Vahag (talk) 08:57, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
 * There is ( written), but it hardly has this sense of “settled”, but “settled” in the sense of “there is people living there (”. Fay Freak (talk) 09:04, 13 September 2021 (UTC)