Clauson (1972)
An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish
p. 634
D kança
‘whithersoever; whither?’ and the like. Morphologically an Equative, but a very old word fr. the same base as ka:ñu:, q.v. S.i.s.m.l., but meaning ‘how many?’ (cf. ne:çe:). Türkü viii ff. kança: barır men ‘where am I going?’ IrkB 42: Uyğ. viii ff. Bud. kança bardı ‘where has he gone?’ PP 53, 6; kança barırsız do. 78, 1; o.o. U II 25, 21; III 36, 10; IV 14, 144—bu kança barğay kentü ölgey ‘wherever he goes, he will die’ PP 57, 6-7: Xak. xi kança: bardıŋ ‘where (or why?) have you gone?’ I 74, 17; kança: bardı: belgü:sü:z ‘no one knows where it has gone’ (ilā ayy ciha tattacih) I 354, 17; kança: barsa: ‘wherever it goes’ III 40, 1; a.o. I 224 (ümlüg); n.m.e.: KB 27 (kalı:), 206, 5137 (ka:ñı:), 5202: xiii(?) At. kanı kança bardı ‘where and whither has he gone?’ 386; Tef. kança (bar-) ‘whither?; wherever’ 198: xiv Muh. ilā ayna kança: (-c-) Mel. 17, 15; Rif. 96: Xwar. xiii kança/kançaru ‘whither?’ ‘Ali 17, 32: xiv kança barur sen Nahc. 410, 3: Kıp. xiv kança: (-c-) barur sen ayna taḏhab İd. 75: Osm. xiv to xvi (only) kanca/kancaru are common TTS I 409; II 570; III 400; IV 459.