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Where does “yirmi” come from?

yirmi (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish یگرمی, from Proto-Turkic *yẹgirmi.

yirmi (Turkish): twenty

Definitions

  1. twenty

Ancestry of “yirmi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishیگرمی—
2Proto-Turkic*yẹgirmi—
Every word from Proto-Turkic *yẹgirmi →