Where does “Yiğit” come from?

Yiğit (Turkish) comes from Turkish yiğit, from Old Turkic yigit, from Proto-Turkic jigit, from Proto-Turkic *yegit.

Yiğit (Turkish): heroic

Definitions

  1. heroic

Ancestry of “Yiğit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyiğitheroic; wight, brave one
2Old Turkicyigit—
3Proto-Turkicjigityoung male adult; young man, brave man
4Proto-Turkic*yegit—

Words derived from “Yiğit”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *yegit →Every word from Proto-Turkic jigit →Every word from Old Turkic yigit →
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