Where does “altmış sekizinci” come from?

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

altmış sekizinci (Turkish): sixty-eighth

Definitions

  1. sixty-eighth

Ancestry of “altmış sekizinci”, step by step

altmış sekizinci 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 sekiz

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