Where does “1-це” come from?
1-це (Moksha) comes from Moksha -це, from Azerbaijani -cə, from Proto-Turkic *-če.
1-це (Moksha): 1st, first
Ancestry of “1-це”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Moksha | -це | ordinal suffix; 2nd person singular possessive... |
| 2 | Azerbaijani | -cə | — |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *-če | — |