Kyrgyz

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kadgu.

Noun

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кайгы (kaygı)

  1. sorrow

Nogai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kadgu.[1][2] Cognate with Karakalpak qayǵı.

Noun

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кайгы (kaygı)

  1. sorrow, grief, anxiety

References

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  1. ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kaḏğu:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 598
  2. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kadgu”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *kadgu. Cognate with Kazakh қайғы (qaiğy), Kyrgyz кайгы (kaygı), Crimean Tatar qayğı, Kumyk къайгъы (qayğı), Bashkir ҡайғы (qayğı), Tatar кайгы (qaygı), Azerbaijani qayğı, Turkish kaygı, Uzbek qaygʻu, Uyghur قايغۇ (qayghu), Chuvash хуйхӑ (hujh̬ă), etc.

Noun

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кайгы (kaygï)

  1. sorrow

References

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Gürsoy Naskali, Emine M. Duran, editor (1999), “page:101”, in altayca Türkçe Sözlük [Altai-Turkish Dictionary], Ankara, →ISBN