Where does “ఎందరు” come from?
ఎందరు (Telugu) comes from Telugu ఎంత, from Telugu ఏ, from Proto-Dravidian *yā.
ఎందరు (Telugu): how many
Ancestry of “ఎందరు”, 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 | — |