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Where does “Ku Klux Klanner” come from?

Ku Klux Klanner (English) comes from English ER, from Turkish er, from Ottoman Turkish ایر, from Old Anatolian Turkish ایر, from Proto-Turkic ēder.

Ku Klux Klanner (English): A member of the Ku Klux Klan

Definitions

  1. A member of the Ku Klux Klan

Ancestry of “Ku Klux Klanner”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
2Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
3Ottoman Turkishایر—
4Old Anatolian Turkishایر—
5Proto-Turkicēder—
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