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 Tati 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, Hračʻeay (1977) “հող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 112a, derives from Old Armenian հող (hoł)
• Asatrjan, G. (1986) “О ранних арменизмах в курдском [On Early Armenian Loan-Words in Kurdish]”, in Patma-banasirakan handes [Historical-Philological Journal]‎^[1] (in Russian), number 2, Yerevan: Academy Press, page 170 of 168–175
• Asatrian, G., Livshits, V. (1994) “Origine du système consonantique de la langue kurde”, in Acta Kurdica, volume 1, page 88 of 81–108
• Asatrian, Garnik (2001) “Die Ethnogenese der Kurden und frühe kurdisch-armenische Kontakte”, in Iran and the Caucasus‎^[2] (in German), volume 5, page 61
• Bläsing, Uwe (2000) “Irano-Turcica: Weitere iranische Elemente im Türkeitürkischen”, in Folia Orientalia‎^[3] (in German), volume 36, Kraków, § 11, pages 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