Where does “yetmiş birinci” come from?

yetmiş birinci (Azerbaijani) comes from Turkish inci, from Ottoman Turkish اینجو, from Common Turkic *yinčü, from Middle Chinese 珍珠.

yetmiş birinci (Azerbaijani): seventy-first

Definitions

  1. seventy-first

Ancestry of “yetmiş birinci”, step by step

yetmiş birinci traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish inci

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishincipearl
2Ottoman Turkishاینجوpearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks
3Common Turkic*yinčü—
4Middle Chinese珍珠—

via Turkish yetmiş bir

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyetmiş birseventy-one
Every word from Middle Chinese 珍珠 →Every word from Common Turkic *yinčü →Every word from Ottoman Turkish اینجو →