Where does “اینجو” come from?

اینجو (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Common Turkic *yinčü, from Middle Chinese 珍珠.

اینجو (Ottoman Turkish): pearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks

Definitions

  1. pearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks

Ancestry of “اینجو”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Common Turkic*yinčü—
2Middle Chinese珍珠—

Words derived from “اینجو”

Every word from Middle Chinese 珍珠 →Every word from Common Turkic *yinčü →