Where does “haçvari” come from?
haçvari (Turkish) comes from Turkish -vari, from Ottoman Turkish ـواری, from Persian ـواری, from Persian ـوار, from Persian ـه, from Proto-Iranian -akah, from Proto-Iranian -kah, from Proto-Austronesian ka — if.
haçvari (Turkish): cruciform, X-shaped
Ancestry of “haçvari”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | -vari | — |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | ـواری | — |
| 3 | Persian | ـواری | — |
| 4 | Persian | ـوار | — |
| 5 | Persian | ـه | — |
| 6 | Proto-Iranian | -akah | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |
| 7 | Proto-Iranian | -kah | — |
| 8 | Proto-Austronesian | ka | if |