qandoq
Uzbek
| Other scripts | |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic | қандоқ (qandoq) |
| Latin | qandoq |
| Perso-Arabic | |
Etymology
Inherited from Chagatai قانداغ (qandaġ). Related to Karachay-Balkar къалай (qalay), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday), Kazakh қалай (qalai), Uyghur قانداق (qandaq), Tuvan кандыг (kandıg), and Yakut хайдах (qaydaq).
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) + *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)
Usage notes
- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.
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