Where does “ఎందరు” come from?
ఎందరు (Telugu) comes from Telugu ఎంత, from Telugu ఏ, from Proto-Dravidian *yā.
ఎందరు (Telugu): how many
Definitions
- how many
Ancestry of “ఎందరు”, step by step
ఎందరు traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Telugu ఎంత
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telugu | ఎంత | how much; how many |
| 2 | Telugu | ఏ | interrogative adjective; which, what |
| 3 | Proto-Dravidian | *yā | — |
via Telugu వారు
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telugu | వారు | they; third-person human distal plural personal... |