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Where does “Erdoğan” come from?

Erdoğan (English) comes from Turkish Erdoğan, from Ottoman Turkish ارطوغان, from Ottoman Turkish طوغان, from Proto-Turkic *togan, from Proto-Turkic *tȫg-.

Ancestry of “Erdoğan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishErdoğan—
2Ottoman Turkishارطوغان—
3Ottoman Turkishطوغان—
4Proto-Turkic*togan—
5Proto-Turkic*tȫg-—
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