köken: Cognate with Kyrgyz чылгоо (cılgoo), Southern Altai чулгу (čulgu), Tatar чолгау (çolğaw). Doublet of шұлық (şūlyq), a reborrowing from Russian. Per Sevortyan, derived from *çul (not in Kazakh, see Turkish çul). Akhmetyanov compares it to Karakhanid [script needed] (çoğla), which could have been metathesized. Derived from [script needed] (çoğ, “bundle”), whence шоқ (şoq).