36. Words related to number "seven hundred":
Greek word EPTAKOSIOI means "seven hundred", and EPTAKOSIOSTOS means "seven hundredth", [Divry's Modern English-Greek,
Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 762].
Turkish cardinal numeral for "seven hundred" is "YEDIYÜZ" and for ordinal numeral "seven hundredth" is "YEDI YÜZiNCi" (YEDI YÜZÜNCÜ).
a) Greek word EPTAKOSIOI, meaning "seven hundred",
rearranged letter-by-letter as "EPI-KATO-IOS" or "ETI-KAPO-IOS",
is the altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish mathematical
expression "YEDI KATI YÜZ" meaning "seven fold
hundred", that
is, "seven times
hundred" (i.e, 7 x
100 = 700) , that makes
seven hundred. One of the letter Ts (D) and the letter Y in the original
Turkish text have been dropped. Turkish word YEDI means "seven", KATI means "times,
fold", YÜZ means "hundred".
Again, we note that a Turkish multiplication expression has been used to
construct the Greek cardinal name EPTAKOSIOI, rather than the Turkish cardinal
numeral name "YEDIYÜZ".
b) Greek word EBDOMEKONTAKIS means "seventy times",
[Divry's dictionary, 1988, p. 485].Greek word EBDOMEKONTAKIS,
rearranged letter-by-letter as "EDI-KATO-ON-KESBM" < "yEDI-KATI-ON KEZEM" meaning "I am seven-times-ten
times", that is, "I
am seventy times".
We note that even in the construction
of this Greek numeral term EBDOMEKONTAKIS, Turkish
mathematical expression "YEDI-KATI-ON" has been used, just like "YEDI KATI YÜZ" was used to come up with the Greek
numeral EPTAKOSIOI meaning "seven hundred".
So the method of fabricating the Greek numerals in these two cases is the same.
c) The Greek word EPTAKOSIOSTOS meaning "seven hundredth",
rearranged letter-by-letter as "ETO-KATO-IOS-SSP", is the
altered, restructured and Hellenized form of the Turkish mathematical
expression "YEDI KATI YÜZCÜ" meaning "seven times
hundredth", that
is, "seven
hundredth".
We note that the Turkish ordinal numeral name 'YEDIYÜZÜNCÜ' has not been used in the normal way, but
rather has been replaced with the multiplication term "YEDI KATI YÜZCÜ". Even in that, the infix "IN" (ÜN) has been dropped and replaced with a
wrapping and confusing element of SSP! Thus, a distorting and disguising
technique has been used in order to come up with Greek numeral names from
Turkish expressions.
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