2. Greek words related to
"ordinal numeral":
Greek word TIKTIKA, meaning "ordinal
numeral", [Divry's Modern
English-Greek, Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 762], rearranged letter-by-letter as "TIK-TIK-A", is from Turkish
expression "TEKTEK O"
(BIRBIR, SIRA ILE) meaning "it is one-by-one in accordance with the
item's serial position in a row or column". This refers to
numeral names such as first,
second, third, fourth, . . . .".
Turkish word TEK means "single,
alone, by himself (herself/itself)", TEKTEK means "one-by-one
as in a line".
Even the English term ORDINAL
NUMERALS (also ordinal numbers), defined as "numbers defining a thing's position
in a series, such as “first,” “second,” or “third.”", [Oxford American Dictionaries],
rearranged letter-by-letter as "SIRA-NUMARE- ODLLN"
or "SILN-NUMORE-ADLAR", is the altered, restructured,
disguised and Anglicized form of the Turkish expression "SIRA NUMARA ADLARI" meaning "names of position numbers",
that is, "the
names of serial numbers". This Turkish definition is again
exactly the definition attributed to this concept of the so-called "ordinal numeral" as
given above. Thus, the source of this English term is also from Turkish
contrary to misspelling and mispronunciation!
I must note here that the English term SERIES,
as in things that come one
after each other, is from the Turkish word SIRASI or SIRA.
Related to this is also the English term SERIAL,
meaning "taking place
in a series", is from the Turkish word SIRALI (SIRA ILE) meaning "one
after the other". For example, the English term SERIAL NUMBER can be explained as follows: The English term SERIAL NUMBER, rearranged
as "SIRALE-NUMBRE", (where B is alphabetically upshifted
from the letter A - thus making it "SIRALE-NUMARE")
is from Turkish expression "SIRALI
NUMARA" (SIRA NUMARASI) meaning "serial
number".
Turkish
word SIRA means "position
in a line", SIRASI means "the
position of (something in a line)", SIRALI means "numbers
in a series", and NUMARA means "number".
Polat Kaya,
23/05/2011