Where does “Turkess” come from?

Turkess (English) comes from English turk, from Turkish Türk, from Ottoman Turkish ترك, from Persian ترک, from Middle Persian twlk', from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜, from Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k — Turk, Turkic people.

Turkess (English): A female Turk

Definitions

  1. A female Turk

Ancestry of “Turkess”, step by step

Turkess traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English turk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishturkA person of an ethnically diverse linguistic group that speaks the Turkic languages
2TurkishTürkTurk; Turkish
3Ottoman TurkishتركTurk
4Persianترکcrack
5Middle Persiantwlk'—
6Old Turkic𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜Turk
7Proto-Turkic*tür(ü)kTurk, Turkic people

via English ess

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishessThe name of the Latin-script letter S; Something...
2Germanessfirst-person singular present of essen; singular...
3Proto-Germanicatiska-grainfield
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂edos-sort of cereal, grain
Every word from Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k →