Where does “öteki” come from?

öteki (Turkish) comes from Turkish -kı, from Persian ـگی, from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو, from Proto-Turkic *-gü — Derives nouns from verbs.

öteki (Turkish): other

Definitions

  1. other

Ancestry of “öteki”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkish-kıadded arbitrarily to words to make pseudo-Hellenisms
2Persianـگیform of the suffix for words that end in the short vowel ه}}}}
3Old Anatolian Turkishـکو—
4Proto-Turkic*-güDerives nouns from verbs

Words derived from “öteki”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *-gü →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو →Every word from Persian ـگی →