قانداغ

Chagatai

Alternative forms

Etymology

From *kanï teg. Compare Kazakh қандай (qandai), Kyrgyz кандай (kanday).

Pronoun

قانداغ • (qāndāġ /qandaġ/)

  1. what kind of
  2. how
    Synonym: قلای (qlāy /⁠qalay⁠/)

Usage notes

  • This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.

Descendants

  • Uzbek: qanday
  • Uyghur: قانداق (qandaq)

References

  • Schluessel, Eric (2018), “قانداغ”, in An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources‎[1], Michigan Publishing, page 229
  • Afrikanovich, Mikhail Terentyev (1875), Грамматики турецкая, персидская, киргизская и узбекская [Turkish, Persian, Kyrgyz and Uzbek Grammars]‎[2] (in Azerbaijani), Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, page 182
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