قانداغ

Chagatai

Etymology

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

قانداغ (qandaġ)

1. how

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• قلای (qalay)

Descendants

• Uzbek: qandoq
• Uyghur: قانداق (qandaq)

References

• 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