نجك

Karakhanid

Etymology

Ultimately from a deriavtion of Proto-Turkic *nē- (“interrogative stem”).

Adverb

نَجُكْ (nečük)

1. (Yabaqu) why

   نَجُكْ بَرْدیٖنْكْ ― Nečük bardïŋ? ― Why've you gone there?

References

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 392