G antağ a crasis of an-(ol) and te:g (the original form anteg actually occurs twice in T); an Adv., occasionally used Adjectivally, meaning ‘like that, thus, so’. S.i.a.m.l.g. except apparently NW. Türkü viii biz anteg ertimiz ‘that was our situation’ T 8; (a spy came from the Türgeş xağan) savı: anteg ‘his report was as follows’ T 29—körüg savı: antağ (sic) T 9, similar phr. T 36; antağıpın üçü:n ‘because you were like that’ I S 8, II N 6; antağ külüg xağan ermiş ‘he was such a famous xağan’ I E 4, II E 5; (antak in Ix. 17 is a misreading of ançak q.v.): viii ff. antağ küçlü:g men ‘I am so strong’ IrkB 3, 20, 60; o.o. do. 10, 40; antağ ter ‘this is what he says’ do. 44: Man. antak (sic) terkin ‘so quickly’ M I 7, 15: Yen. andağ (so spelt) ermiş Mal. 29, 7 (rather a dubious text): Uyğ. viii ff. Man.-A yek antağ ölti ‘thus the demon died’ Man.-Uig. Frag. 401, 9: Man. nep andağ (sic) tev kür yelvi arvış yok kim ol umağay ‘there are no tricks (Hend.), sorceries and spells such that he cannot perform them’ M II 5, 8-10; erdemi sevinçi yel teprinip antağ ‘the virtue and attraction of the wind god is like this’ Wind. 5 (in a later parallel passage muntağ): Bud. Sanskrit tathā ‘thus’ a:ndağ/andağ TT VIII E.45; also spelt a:nda:ğ; andağ erip ‘that being so’ TT V 22, 17; ne üçün andağ tetir ‘why is it so called?’ do. 24, 63; many o.o.: Civ. bu çurnı küçi a:nta:ğ (sic) ol ‘the strength of this powder is such that’ TT VIII M.20; a:nda:ğ (sic) muhurtta a:nda:ğ yultuz a:nda:ğ raşıta: ermiş ‘during such a period of an hour (Sanskrit) such a star was in such a sign of the Zodiac (Sanskrit)’ do. L.31; bu yeme andağ ırk ol ‘this, too, is the same kind of omen’ TT VII 29, 8 (cf. ançulayu:): Çiğil xi anda:ğ an Adverb (harf) meaning kaḏālika ‘thus’; hence one says andağ (sic) aydım ‘I spoke thus’ (kaḏā) Kaş. I 118; about a dozen o.o. in Xak. quotns.: xiii(?) Tef. andağ ‘thus; such (Adj.)’; andağ ok ‘thus’ 51: Çağ. xv ff. andak ançılayın Vel. 31; andak ānçunān ‘thus’ San. 51v. 21 (quotn.): Xwar. xiii(?) andağ körüklüg ‘so beautiful that’ (kim) Oğ. 59-60; a.o.o. qualifying Adjs.: xiv andağ olturur erdi kim ka’annahu ‘he sat as if he was’ (a prisoner awaiting execution) . . . andağ kadğu hasrat birle olturdı ‘he sat in such anxiety and distress’ Nahc. 236, 15-17: Kıp. xiv andawok (< andağ ok) kaḏāka ay miṯl ḏāka İd. 24: Osm. xiv to xvi andak ‘forthwith, immediately; so much’ in several texts TTS I 26; III 22; IV 24 (other meanings not listed).
Marcel Erdal (2004)
A Grammar of Old Turkic
p. 193-194