xwelî

• xalî, xolî

From Proto-Iranian *hwarda-, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo-, from *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”), whence Proto-Germanic *swartaz (“black”). The Iranian cognates include Central Kurdish خۆڵ‎ (xoll, “earth”), Chali xōla, Eshtehardi xola (“ash”), Bakhtiari [script needed] (hōl, xōl, hul, “ash”), Gurani [script needed] (hūl, “ashy (in color)”), [script needed] (xul, “ash”), Persian خوال‎ (xvâl, “soot”), Zazaki wel (“ash”).

Old Armenian հող (hoł, “earth, soil”), Aghwan 𐕆𐕒𐔾 (hol, “clay”), and dialectal Turkish holi (“earth, soil”) are borrowed from Iranian.

Doublet of hox.

• IPA^(key): /xʷɛˈliː/
• Rhymes: -iː

xwelî f

1. ash(es)
2. (dialectal) dust, dirt, soil, earth, ground

• xwelîdank, xwelîser

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1977), “հող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume III, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 112a, derives from Old Armenian հող (hoł)
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• Bläsing, Uwe (2000), “Irano-Turcica: Weitere iranische Elemente im Türkeitürkischen”, in Folia Orientalia‎ (in German), volume 36, Kraków, § 11, page 43–44
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020), “xwelî”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series), London: Transnational Press, page 421
• Morgenstierne, Georg (1973), “Chapter 13: Persian etymologies”, in Irano-Dardica (Beiträge zur Iranistik; 5), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 167