Where does “iyirmi birinci” come from?

iyirmi birinci (Azerbaijani) comes from Azerbaijani -ıncı, from Ottoman Turkish ـنجی, from Proto-Turkic *-inč.

iyirmi birinci (Azerbaijani): twenty-first

Definitions

  1. twenty-first

Ancestry of “iyirmi birinci”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Azerbaijani-ıncıPostconsonantal form of -inci after the vowels A...
2Ottoman TurkishـنجیSuffix creating ordinal numbers; -th
3Proto-Turkic*-inč—
Every word from Proto-Turkic *-inč →Every word from Azerbaijani -ıncı →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـنجی →