Where does “yanılgı” come from?

yanılgı (Turkish) comes from Turkish gi — An exclamation to call or address the hearer.

yanılgı (Turkish): error, mistake, misconception, fallacy

Definitions

  1. error, mistake, misconception, fallacy

Ancestry of “yanılgı”, step by step

yanılgı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish gi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TurkishgiAn exclamation to call or address the hearer

via Turkish yanılmak

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyanılmakto err, to be mistaken, to be wrong
Every word from Turkish gi