Proto-Turkic: *Kendük (*Kentük)
Meaning: 1 large earthenware jar for storing flour 2 bin, crib for flour, grain
Russian meaning: 1 большой глиняный сосуд для муки 2 ларь, закром для муки, зерна
Karakhanid: kendük (MK - Ganch.) 1
Middle Turkic: kündük 'jug' (Sangl.)
Uzbek: kandik 2
Azerbaidzhan: kändi 2
Halaj: kändi 'basket'
Chuvash: kandi 'round wooden bowl'
Kirghiz: kendik 'room for grain, fuel' (may be < Pers.)
Comments: EDT 729. Clauson regards the word as an unequivocal iranism. The Iranian forms are: Pekhl. kndwg ( > Armen. k'andouk), Pers. kandū, kandūk 'big earthenware vessel for storing grain', Osset. xaendyg 'pail for pickled cheese'. Persian is the source of Syr. kndwk-, Arab. kandūǯ 'big vessel for grain'. Also related is Sak. khadīrakya (*xandīra-) 'a vessel' (possibly, some basket-work, see Bailey 71, Аб. 4, 173). Abayev derives the above forms from Iran. *kan- 'to dig' - which is not quite plausible (in a participle we would expect the zero grade vocalism; unclear is the labial vowel in the suffix; semantics raises doubts). On the other hand, all the above Iranian forms can be well explained as Turkisms, including the Saka form - with the suffix -rak (a wellknown suffix for receptacles, see Bang 1918). External parallels provide the final support for such a decision. Middle Greek kóndü 'potǟ́rion' may be < Bulg., cf. the Chuv. semantics (see Фасмер sub кандия; cf. also other European words possibly having the same source).
