Where does “iyirminci” come from?

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

iyirminci (Azerbaijani): twentieth

Definitions

  1. twentieth

Ancestry of “iyirminci”, 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 →
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