25. Greek words related to number "fifty":
Greek
word PENTEKONTA means "fifty",
and PENTEKOSTOS means "fiftieth", [Divry's Modern English-Greek,
Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 762].
Turkish cardinal numeral for "fifty" is "ELLI" and for ordinal numeral "fiftieth" is "ELLINCI".
a) This Greek word PENTEKONTA, rearranged letter-by-letter as "PENTE-KAT-ON", we have the Turkish mathematical
expression "PENTE-KATI-ON", that is, PENTE x 10 = 50 where PENTE may be regarded as an unknown term to
be determined. Mathematically, PENTE
= 50/10 = 5 which is verbally
BEŞ in Turkish.
Separately, under Item 7. Greek words related to number
"five", we had also found that PENTE was part of Greek words which were
made up from Turkish expressions that used Turkish numeral name BEŞ. Thus,
Greek PENTE had obtained its meaning from Turkish
cardinal numeral name BEŞ meaning "five".
This we can see clearly in items b), c) and d) below.
Thus, in building the Greek word PENTEKONTA, the Turkish
mathematical expression "BEŞ KATI-ON" meaning "five-times-ten" has been used, rather than the Turkish cardinal
numeral name "ELLI" meaning "fifty".
Turkish word BEŞ means "five", KATI means "times,
fold", ON means "ten".
b) Similarly, the Greek word PENTEKOSTOS, meaning "fiftieth", rearranged letter-by-letter as "PESS-KOTE-ONT", is an altered, restructured and Hellenized
form of the Turkish mathematical expression "BEŞ KATI-ONDu" meaning "it
is five-times-ten", that is, "it is fifty".
We note that, in this case, Turkish expression "(BEŞ KATI-ON) UNCU", meaning "it is
'five-times-ten'th", has
been altered down to "BEŞ KATI-ONDu" while Turkish ordinal numeral name "ELLINCI" has been avoided.
c) Another "PENTE" related Greek word is the word PENTEKONTAETERIS meaning "fiftieth anniversary", [Divry's Dictionary, 1988, p. 638].
The Greek word PENTEKONTAETERIS, rearranged letter-by-letter as "PES-KATI-ONENTETER", is an altered, restructured and
Hellenized form of the Turkish mathematical expression "'BEŞ KATI-ON'INCITIR" (ELLINCIDIR) meaning "it
is the 'five-times-ten'th", that is, "it is the
fiftieth". Here, we get a perfect correspondence but in an
expression referring to "fiftieth anniversary".
d) However, in the context of "fiftieth anniversary",
we have another decipherment in Turkish. When the Greek word PENTEKONTAETERIS is rearranged as "PET-KATI-ON-SENETER", it is an altered, restructured and
Hellenized form of the Turkish expression "BEŞ KATI-ON SENETIR" meaning "it is
'five-times-ten' years", that is, "it is the fiftieth
year" or "it is fiftieth
anniversary".
Turkish word ELLI means "fifty", ELLINCI means "fiftieth", ELLINCIDIR means "it
is the fiftieth", SENE means "year".
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