قانداغ

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Chagatai[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Karakhanid [Term?]. Related to Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq)

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) +‎ *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)

Pronoun[edit]

قانداغ (qandaġ)

  1. how

Usage notes[edit]

  • This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Uzbek: qandoq
  • Uyghur: قانداق (qandaq)

References[edit]

  • Schluessel, Eric (2018) “قانداغ”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎[1], Michigan Publishing, page 229
  • Afrikanovich, Mikhail Terentyev (1875) Грамматики турецкая, персидская, киргизская и узбекская [Turkish, Persian, Kyrgyz and Uzbek Grammars]‎[2] (in Azerbaijani), Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, page 182
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