Where does “çiftetelli” come from?
çiftetelli (Turkish) comes from Turkish telli, from Turkish tel, from Turkish telefon, from Arabic تلفون, from French téléphone, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre — whale, sea monster; abyss.
çiftetelli (Turkish): tsifteteli a sensuous belly dance of Turkish origin, that is found in many of the territories of the former Ottoman Empire, particularly Greece
Definitions
- tsifteteli a sensuous belly dance of Turkish origin, that is found in many of the territories of the former Ottoman Empire, particularly Greece
Ancestry of “çiftetelli”, step by step
çiftetelli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish telli
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | telli | fibrous; stringed; wired |
| 2 | Turkish | tel | wire; thread; string, chord |
| 3 | Turkish | telefon | telephone |
| 4 | Arabic | تلفون | telephone; second-person masculine plural... |
| 5 | French | téléphone | telephone; first-person singular present... |
| 6 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via Turkish çift
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turkish | çift | pair; mate, one member of a pair; married couple |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | چفت | pair; mate, one of a pair; couple, brace, two... |
| 3 | Persian | جفت | pair; couple; mate |
| 4 | Pahlavi | ywht | — |
| 5 | Proto-Iranian | yuxtáh | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | yuktás | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | yugtós | yoked, joined |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yewg- | to join, to yoke, to tie together |