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Chagatai
Etymology
Inherited from Karakhanid قالی (qali). Related to Kyrgyz кандай (kanday) and Kazakh қалай (qalai).
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ka- (“interrogative stem”) + *-lig (“adjectival suffix”)
Pronoun
قلای (qalay)
- how
(Can we date this quote?), Yasawi, Ahmad, حِکَم حضرت سلطان العارفین خواجه احمد یسوی [Words of Wisdom of Hazrat Sultan-al-Arifin Khwaja Ahmad Yasawi], Kazan, published 1912, page 77:
Usage notes
- This word is often mistakenly considered an adverb, but actually it is a pronoun.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- Straughn, Christopher A. (2023) “how”, in Turkic database at Elegant Lexicon
- el-Buhari, Süleyman Özbeki (1881) Lugat-ı Çağatay ve Türki-i Osmani [Ottoman Turkish-Chagatai Dictionary] (in Ottoman Turkish), volume 1, page 229
- Abdollahi-Jahani, Hasan (2012) فرهنگ جغتایی - فارسی [Chagatai-Persian Dictionary] (in Persian), page 129
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Noun
قلای • (kalay)
- Alternative spelling of قالای (kalay, “tin”)
Etymology 2
Adjective
قلای • (kolay)
- Alternative spelling of قولای (kolay, “easy”)