Unknown. Theories include:

• Simplified from*вьюла́(*vʹjulá) fromвить(vitʹ)
• Related toюр(jur,“a spot stirred up by currents or bypassers etc.”),ю́ркий(júrkij,“agile, brisk”),Proto-Slavic*juriti(“to stir up”),Serbo-Croatianjúriti(“to chivvy”),Polishjurzyć(“to stir up”), ofTurkic origin represented byyürümek(“to march forward”)
• Related toProto-Slavic*juditi,Polishjudzić(“to instigate”)
• Borrowed from a descendant ofOld Norsehjól(“wheel”)

• IPA^(key): [jʊˈɫa]

юла́• (julá) f inan orf anim (genitiveюлы́,nominative pluralюлы́,genitive pluralюл)

1. spinning top(toy)
2. woodlark

• волчо́к(volčók)
• лесно́й жа́воронок(lesnój žávoronok)

• юли́ть impf(julítʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “юла”, inOleg Trubachyov, transl.,Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

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