Where does “yeraltı” come from?

yeraltı (Turkish) comes from Turkish alt, from Ottoman Turkish آلت, from Romanian ăl, from Latin illum, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.

yeraltı (Turkish): underground, subterranean

Definitions

  1. underground, subterranean

Ancestry of “yeraltı”, step by step

yeraltı traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Turkish alt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishaltbottom; under
2Ottoman Turkishآلتtool, instrument, apparatus; penis
3Romanianălthat; the
4Latinillumaccusative masculine singular of ille
5Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
6LatinolleArchaic form of ille
7Proto-Italic*olnosthat

via Turkish yer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishyerplace, location; the ground, the earth;...
2Ottoman Turkishیرplace, location
3Old Anatolian Turkishیرsite, land, place, location, a particular point or place in physical space
4Proto-Turkicyẹrearth
Every word from Proto-Italic *olnos →Every word from Latin olle →Every word from Latin ille →