külək

Etymology
Cognate with dialectal 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Most recorded senses in Chagatai have connotations of "sea wind, sea storm, sea waves" (ibid.).

Has been compared to dialectal, for which senses “brisk, lively; sly, cunning” have been recorded too (in the form ). These forms are, no doubt, related to Upper-Kondoma variety of 🇨🇬 and Kondoma 🇨🇬 (ib. 388). Levitskaja compares (seemingly unaware of the senses “brisk, lively; sly, cunning”) with külek and proposes a sound change /k/ -> /t/, deriving the former from the latter. However, this is implausible, since has a  well-explicable etymology (ultimately  ← *tül- 'to be mad'), whereas külek itself is yet unexplained. The sound change of the initial /t/ -> /k/ is rather unprecedented, too, in absence of any visible assimilatory factor, suggesting that tülex is not related, unless reshaped by analogy or re-interpretation.

Compare also dvandva-compounds in, , , and dialectal  all meaning “to pieces, into smithereens”, as in “to knock to pieces, to smash into smithereens, to shatter'. The first element in these compounds corresponds to (compare e.g. ). Compare also the second part of the several of the compounds, e.g., which resembles the Oghuz words for 'wave', cf. , and  (compare the sea-related senses in Chaghatai), whereas the terms for 'flour' and 'powder' in Oghuz languages go back to other roots. Külək might have originated in such compounds, although this is speculative.

Noun

 * 1) wind