Where does “قرتال” come from?
قرتال (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Proto-Kartvelian kart-, from Finnish kärsi, from Proto-Finnic karci.
Ancestry of “قرتال”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Proto-Kartvelian | kart- | — |
| 2 | Finnish | kärsi | Third-person singular indicative past form of... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | karci | — |