Proto-Turkic: *Keleŋü
Meaning: field mouse
Russian meaning: мышь-полевка
Karakhanid: kelegü 'al-yarbū' (MK)
Turkish: kelen(g)i, geleni, dial. gelenki
Uighur: keleŋü (IM)
Kirghiz: kelemiš, keler, keles
Comments: VEWT 249, EDT 718, ЭСТЯ 5, 31, Лексика 181. The root is not widely attested (although mentioned by MK), and may become confused with the root for 'lizard'; in Turkic dialects folk-etymologically influenced by gelin 'bride' (cf. also gelincek 'weasel', see Цивьян 1979), which would explain voiced g- (irregular in the Altaic perspective).
