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)
    • → Yiddish: קאַליקע (kalike) (via a Slavic language)

    References

    • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قالیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), 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), volume II (), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 352
    • Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-12-13), “kalmak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 3 June 2016
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