Where does “altıncı” come from?

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

altıncı (Crimean Tatar): sixth

Definitions

  1. sixth

Ancestry of “altıncı”, 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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