Where does “sıfırıncı” come from?
sıfırıncı (Turkish) comes from Turkish sıfır, from Ottoman Turkish صفر, from Arabic صِفْر, from Sanskrit शून्य, from Proto-Indo-European ḱówH-.
sıfırıncı (Turkish): zeroth
Ancestry of “sıfırıncı”, step by step
sıfırıncı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Turkish sıfır
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | sıfır | zero |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | صفر | zero; nought, naught, zero; Safar |
| 3 | Arabic | صِفْر | zero, nothing, empty, void; nothing, cipher;... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | शून्य | zero; cipher, cypher; blank, deserted |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱówH- | — |
via Turkish inci
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | inci | pearl |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | اینجو | pearl, a shelly and rounded concretion produced by certain mollusks |
| 3 | Common Turkic | *yinčü | — |
| 4 | Middle Chinese | 珍珠 | — |