Where does “ఎంతమంది” come from?
ఎంతమంది (Telugu) comes from Telugu ఎంత, from Telugu ఏ, from Proto-Dravidian *yā.
ఎంతమంది (Telugu): how many persons?
Ancestry of “ఎంతమంది”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Telugu | ఎంత | how much; how many |
| 2 | Telugu | ఏ | interrogative adjective; which, what |
| 3 | Proto-Dravidian | *yā | — |