33. Greek words related to number "four hundred":
Greek word TETRAKOSIOI means "four hundred",
and TETRAKOSIOSTOS means "four hundredth", [Divry's
Modern English-Greek, Greek-English Dictionary, 1988, p. 762].
Turkish cardinal numeral for "four hundred" is "DÖRTYÜZ" and for ordinal numeral "four hundredth" is "DÖRT YÜZINCI" (DÖRT YÜZÜNCÜ).
a) Greek word TETRAKOSIOI, meaning "four hundred", rearranged
letter-by-letter as "TORT-KEI-IOS-A" or "TORT-KES-IOI-A",
is the altered, restructured, Hellenized and disguised form of the Turkish
mathematical expression "DÖRT KEZ YÜZ O" meaning "it is four times
hundred". This, of course, makes "four
hundred", that is, DÖRT YÜZ in Turkish. As seen here again,
plenty of linguistic alterations and rearrangements have been done to
camouflage the Turkish source phrase defining cardinal numeral name DÖRT YÜZ.
Turkish word DÖRT means "four", KEZ means "time,
times", YÜZ means "hundred", O means "it
is".
Actually, if I had deciphered this Greek cardinal numeral name TETRAKOSIOI as "TORT-IOS-KEIA",
I would find the Turkish cardinal numeral name "DÖRT YÜZ" being readily visible as the first part
of the decipherment. Of course, this Turkish name has been linguistically
wrapped and also garbled by the help of the extra wrapping term KEIA.
b) Greek ordinal numeral name TETRAKOSIOSTOS,
meaning "four
hundredth", rearranged letter-by-letter as "TORT-IOSESSO-KAT",
is the altered, restructured, Hellenized and disguised
form of the Turkish expression "DÖRT YÜZINCÜ KAT" meaning "four hundredth
level". We note that the letter "N" in the Turkish infix IN, ÜN corresponding to the English ordinal
suffix "th" has
been replaced with letter "S".
Thus, the Turkish source phrase "DÖRT YÜZINCÜ KAT" for ordinal numeral name DÖRTYÜZÜNCÜ has been further confused.
From all of this, it is unquestionably clear that the
ancient Greeks fabricated the names of their cardinal and ordinal
numerals from Turkish. But, they restructured and garbled the Turkish
source phrases so thoroughly that the resulting concocted words became really "GIRIK" in
Turkish meaning "broken".
It is no wonder that this Aryan language is called "Greek"!
Polat Kaya