Proto-Turkic: *TAlagu
Meaning: 1 deadly poison 2 diarrhoea 3 ulcer disease
Russian meaning: 1 смертельный яд 2 дизентерия 3 болезнь, связанная с язвами
Karakhanid: talaɣu 1, 2
Tatar: talaw 'a k. of horse disease'
Middle Turkic: dalau 1 (Pav. C.)
Kirghiz: talō-lo-n- 'to become covered by red blots'
Kazakh: talau 'Siberian plague'
Noghai: talav 'pest, plague'
Bashkir: talaw (dial.) 'Siberian plague'
Balkar: talaw 'anthrax, plague'
Kumyk: talaw 'malignant tumour'
Comments: VEWT 458, EDT 496. Despite Clauson, hardly derived from tala- 'to harm, rob'. Modern Oghuz forms (Tur. dial. dalak 'Siberian plague', Az. dial. dalax 'cattle disease', Turkm. dālaq 'camel disease') are restructured on analogy with *d(i)ālak 'spleen' (v. sub *ti̯ṓle). A similarly reinterpreted form is Chuv. talak 'some inner disease of cattle' - borrowed from Tatar talawu (see above), but restructured under the influence of the borrowed talaq 'spleen'.
