köken: Morphologically бір (bır) + -інші (-ınşı). Cognate with Kyrgyz биринчи (birinci); Uzbek birinchi, Turkmen birinji, Azerbaijani birinci, Turkish birinci; Southern Altai биринчи (birinči), Khakas пірінӌі (pìrìncì); etc.
köken: Morphologically bir + -inchi. Cognate with Azerbaijani birinci, Kazakh бірінші (bırınşı), Khakas пірінӌі (pìrìncì), Kyrgyz биринчи (birinci), Southern Altai биринчи (birinči), Turkish birinci, Turkmen birinji, Yakut биирис (biiris).
köken: From morphologically бер (ber) + -енче (-yençe), from Old Turkic برنج (birinç), related to Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”). Cognates include Turkish birinci, Bashkir беренсе (berense), Turkmen birinji, Azerbaijani birinci, and Kazakh бірінші (bırınşı).
initial (first, placed at the beginning) · initial (first letter of a word or name); initials (the first letter of each word of one's name in romaji or a European script as a unit)
köken: From Latin initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).