𐰴𐰭

𐰴𐰭

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kaŋ (“father”). Cognate to Karakhanid قَنْكْسِقْ‎ (qaŋsïq, “step-father”), Karakhanid قَنْكْدَشْ‎ (qaŋdaš, “half brother”), Old Uyghur qʾnk (qaŋ, “father”).

Noun

𐰴𐰭 (qaŋ)

1. father

Synonyms

• 𐰯𐰀‎ (apa)

Antonyms

• (with regards to gender) 𐰇𐰏‎ (ög, “mother”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972), “kaŋ”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 630
• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*K(i)aŋ”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill