qandoq
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Uzbek
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Cyrillic | қандоқ (qandoq) |
Latin | qandoq |
Perso-Arabic | قنداق |
Etymology
[edit]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”)
Pronoun
[edit]qandoq
Usage notes
[edit]- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.