𐰘𐱅𐰃

Old Turkic

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *yẹti (“seven”). Compare Turkish yedi (“seven”), Bashkir ете (yete, “seven”).

Numeral

𐰘𐱅𐰃 (yeti)

1. seven

Related terms

• 𐰘𐱅𐰢𐰾 (yetmiš, “seventy”)

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “yétti:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 886
• Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jẹt(t)i”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill