Where does “бескичмен” come from?
бескичмен (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian ки̑чма, from Ottoman Turkish قیچ, from Proto-Turkic *kïč.
бескичмен (Serbo-Croatian): spineless
Ancestry of “бескичмен”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Serbo-Croatian | ки̑чма | — |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | قیچ | — |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *kïč | — |