Where does “yazılı” come from?
yazılı (Turkish) comes from Turkish yazı, from Ottoman Turkish یازی, from Proto-Turkic *yaŕ-ïg, from Proto-Turkic yār-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂er- — to fit, to fix, to put together.
yazılı (Turkish): written
Ancestry of “yazılı”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | yazı | writing; writing system; accusative singular of... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | یازی | — |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | *yaŕ-ïg | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | yār- | to crack, split; to crack, split, crush; to... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |