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Where does “gümüş” come from?

gümüş (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish gümüş, from Proto-Turkic kümüĺ — silver.

gümüş (Turkish): silver; silver, made of silver

Definitions

  1. silver; silver, made of silver

Ancestry of “gümüş”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishgümüş—
2Proto-Turkickümüĺsilver
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