Where does “kırkyılın başı” come from?

kırkyılın başı (Turkish) comes from Turkish baş, from French basse, from Italian basso, from Latin Bassus, from Ancient Greek βάσις, from Proto-Hellenic gʷə́tis, from Proto-Indo-European gʷémtis, from Proto-Indo-European gʷem- — to step.

kırkyılın başı (Turkish): very rarely, once in a blue moon

Definitions

  1. very rarely, once in a blue moon

Ancestry of “kırkyılın başı”, step by step

kırkyılın başı traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish baş

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishbaşhead; leader of a group; outset of something
2Frenchbassefeminine singular of bas; bass; acoustic guitar
3Italianbassolow; short; narrow, thin
4LatinBassusthick, fat, stumpy, short, low, base
5Ancient Greekβάσιςstep; rhythm; foot
6Proto-Hellenicgʷə́tisstep
7Proto-Indo-Europeangʷémtisstep, act of walking
8Proto-Indo-Europeangʷem-to step

via Turkish kırk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishkırkforty
2Ottoman Turkishقرقforty, the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one
3Old Anatolian Turkishقرقforty
4Proto-Turkickïrkforty

via Turkish yıl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyılyear; second-person singular imperative of yılmak
2Ottoman Turkishییلyear
3Proto-Turkicyïlyear
Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷem-