قالیق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قالمق (qalmaq, “to halt, cease moving, remain, remain behind, be left, to wait, to be deficient, be short”) (see kalmak).

Noun

قالیق • (qalyq)

1. defect, imperfection; defectiveness

Adjective

قالیق • (qalyq)

1. remaining, left
2. having a defect, defective, incomplete

Descendants

• Turkish: kalık
• → Belarusian: кале́ка (kaljéka)
• → Russian: кале́ка (kaléka), (dialectal) каля́ка (kaljáka), каля́га (kaljága), (possibly) кали́ка (kalíka)
  • → Polish: kaleka (or via Belarusian)
• → Ukrainian: калі́ка (kalíka)
  • → Polish: kalika (dialectal)
  • → Romanian: calic, calíc, calícă
  • → Slovak: kalika
• → Yiddish: קאַליקע (kalike) (via a Slavic language)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قالیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 935
• Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1040, page 84a
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “каліка”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-12-13) “kalmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-06-03