قنق

Karakhanid

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *konuk (“guest, lodging”).[1] Related to قُونْماقْ (qōnmāq, “to settle”).

Cognate with Turkish konuk, konak.

Noun

قُنُقْ (qonuq)

guest
قِشْ قُنُقٖى اُوتْ ― Qïš qonuqï̄ ōt. ― Winter hospitality is a fire.

References

Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 637

Further reading

al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 384

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