Where does “altmış dokuzuncu” come from?

altmış dokuzuncu (Turkish) comes from Turkish inci, from Ottoman Turkish اینجو, from Common Turkic *yinčü, from Middle Chinese 珍珠.

altmış dokuzuncu (Turkish): sixty-ninth

Definitions

  1. sixty-ninth

Ancestry of “altmış dokuzuncu”, step by step

altmış dokuzuncu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish inci

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishincipearl
2Ottoman Turkishاینجوpearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks
3Common Turkic*yinčü—
4Middle Chinese珍珠—

via Turkish altmış dokuz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishaltmış dokuzsixty-nine
Every word from Middle Chinese 珍珠 →Every word from Common Turkic *yinčü →Every word from Ottoman Turkish اینجو →