Where does “ఎంత” come from?
ఎంత (Telugu) comes from Telugu ఏ, from Proto-Dravidian *yā.
ఎంత (Telugu): how much; how many
Ancestry of “ఎంత”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Telugu | ఏ | interrogative adjective; which, what |
| 2 | Proto-Dravidian | *yā | — |