Proto-Turkic: *keler / *keleŕ / *kelte
Meaning: lizard
Russian meaning: ящерица
Karakhanid: keler (MK)
Turkish: keler (dial.), kelez (dial.), kelte-keler (dial.)
Middle Turkic: keles (MA)
Uzbek: kälti-kälas, kälɔs (dial.), kältä (dial.)
Uighur: kilɛr (dial.)
Sary-Yughur: kesilkǝ
Azerbaidzhan: kelez, käläz
Khakassian: kileskǝ
Shor: kelesken
Oyrat: keleski
Chuvash: kalda
Tuva: xeleske
Comments: ЭСТЯ 5, 30-32, 34, Лексика 180-181; *keleŕ > Mong. keles, see Щербак 1997, 126. Despite ЭСТЯ the Chuv. form cannot be borrowed from Tat; rather, vice versa, some Volga-Qypchaq languages have borrowed the Bulg. word.
