سكسان
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *sekiŕ ōn (“eighty”, literally “eight tens”). Equivalent to سكز (sekiz, “eight”) + اون (on, “ten”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
سكسان • (seksan)
Descendants
- Turkish: seksen
- → Armenian: սէքսէն (sēkʻsēn)
Further reading
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “seksen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سكسان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1067