Where does “قازیق” come from?
قازیق (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Proto-Turkic *kaŕguk, from Proto-Turkic kaŕ- — to dig, scrape, plane; to dig out.
Ancestry of “قازیق”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Proto-Turkic | *kaŕguk | — |
| 2 | Proto-Turkic | kaŕ- | to dig, scrape, plane; to dig out |