Where does “Arnavutça” come from?

Arnavutça (Turkish) comes from Turkish -çe, from Ottoman Turkish -ce, from Proto-Turkic *-če — Suffix expressing the equative case.

Arnavutça (Turkish): Albanian language

Definitions

  1. Albanian language

Ancestry of “Arnavutça”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkish-çelike, -like, -ly; -ish; as if, as though; in the...
2Ottoman Turkish-ce—
3Proto-Turkic*-čeSuffix expressing the equative case
Every word from Proto-Turkic *-če →Every word from Turkish -çe →Every word from Ottoman Turkish -ce →
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