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Where does “Rusça” come from?

Rusça (Turkish) comes from Turkish -çe, from Ottoman Turkish -ce, from Proto-Turkic *-če.

Ancestry of “Rusça”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkish-çelike, -like, -ly; -ish; as if, as though; in the...
2Ottoman Turkish-ce—
3Proto-Turkic*-če—
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