солақай

Kazakh

Etymology

From a Mongolic source, from Proto-Mongolic *solagai (“left”) – compare Mongolian солгой (solgoj, “left, left-handed”).

The relationship of this Proto-Mongolic form to Proto-Turkic *sōl (“left”) is debatable – these two may be related native forms, or the Mongolic form may be a Turkic borrowing.[1][2]

Cognate with Bashkir һулаҡай (hulaqay, “left-handed”), Kyrgyz сологой (sologoy, “left-handed”), Kumyk солагъай (solağay, “left-handed”), Karachay-Balkar солакъай (solaqay)/солагъай (solağay, “left-handed”), Crimean Tatar solaqay (“left-handed”), Azerbaijani solaxay (“left-handed”), Uyghur سولخاي (solxay) / سولقاي (solqay) / سولۇغاي (solughay, “left-handed”), Khakas солағай (solağay, “left-handed”), Tuvan солагай (solagay, “left, left-handed”).

Adjective

солақай • (solaqai)

  1. left-handed (of person)

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sōl”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  2. ^ Levitskaya L.S. (ed.) Etimologichskiy slovar' tyurkskikh yazykov [An Etymological dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura RAN, vol.7 (2003), p.322-323.
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