16. Greek words related to
number "fourteen":
Greek
word DEKATESSARES, means "fourteen", and DEKATOS TETARTOS means "fourteenth", [Divry's
Modern English-Greek, Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 762].
Turkish cardinal numeral for "fourteen" is "ONDÖRT" and for ordinal numeral "fourteenth" is "ONDÖRDÜNCÜ".
a) When the
Greek word DEKATESSARES, meaning "fourteen" is rearranged
in two parts as "DEKA-TESSARES", we have the two terms DEKA and TESSARES which were explained under Item 12 -Greek words related to number
"ten" and Item 6
- Greek words related to number
"four" respectively. There
we found that DEKA was part of Greek words which were
made up from Turkish expressions that used Turkish numeral ON, and similarly, TESSARES was part
of Greek words which were made up from Turkish expressions that used Turkish
numeral name DÖRT. Hence, the term DEKA gets its meaning from
Turkish ON, while TESSARES gets its meaning from Turkish DÖRT. Thus,
the Greek cardinal numeral name DEKATESSARES gets its meaning from Turkish cardinal
numeral "ONDÖRT" meaning "fourteen" in an indirect way.
b) To show that the Greek term TESSARES is "four",
we can examine another Greek cardinal numeral such as TESSARAKONTA meaning "forty", [Divry's
Modern English-Greek, Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 704]. We see that, the Greek word TESSARES, meaning "four", is a
cut off front part of the name TESSARAKONTA.
When the Greek word TESSARAKONTA, meaning "forty", is
rearranged letter-by-letter as "TORT-KES-AN-SAA"
or "TART-KES-ON-SAA", it
is an altered, restructured, disguised and Hellenized form of the Turkish
mathematical expression "DÖRT KEZ ON
SAYI" meaning "number 'four times
ten'" which is "forty". This "DÖRT KEZ ON" is an expression from the Turkish "Multiplication
Tables" that means "forty". Thus, we again find that the Greek
numeral TESSARA gets its meaning of "four" from Turkish cardinal numeral "DÖRT" as I indicated before. We also see that by use of this
Turkish expression, the use of the Turkish cardinal numeral name KIRK meaning "forty" has been avoided.
As a result of these findings, we
can say that the Greek cardinal numeral name DEKATESSARES meaning "fourteen" has been formulated, in a
labyrinthine way, using Turkish numerals "ON" and "DÖRT".
Turkish word DÖRT means "four", KEZ means "times", ON means "ten", ONDÖRT means "fourteen", SAYI means "number".
c)
Greek composite name DEKATOS
TETARTOS means "fourteenth".
The Greek term DEKATOS also has another form DEKATON, [Divry's
dictionary, p. 468]. This makes the Greek ordinal numeral name for "fourteenth" also to have the composite form of DEKATON
TETARTOS. In this
expression the term DEKATON mathematically stands for numeral "ten" and the term TETARTOS stands for numeral "four" or "fourth".
d) Interestingly, with this knowledge, when the term DEKATON is rearranged as "DEKA-ONT", it is
found to be the restructured Turkish expression "'DEKA' ONTU" ('DEKA' ONDU) meaning "the
term 'DEKA' is ten". This, again
describes in Turkish the fact that the term DEKA corresponds to Turkish cardinal
numeral ON meaning "ten".
e) Additionally, the Greek term TETARTOS, corresponding to numeral "four" or "fourth", rearranged as "TORTSETA", is the
altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish expression "DÖRTCIDI" which is a shortened version of the
Turkish ordinal numeral "DÖRTINCIDI" meaning "it
is fourth".
Thus, the Greek composite
term DEKATON TETARTOS is a term that has been made up, in a
convoluted way, from the Turkish expression "ONDÖRTCIDI" meaning "'it is fourteenth".
All of
this shows that whichever way we inspect these "Greek" numeral names,
that is, DEKATESSARES and DEKATOS TETARTOS, we find a mathematical expression in
Turkish that makes them "fourteen"
and "fourteenth" related in Turkish!
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