#pashto — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pashto, aggregated by home.social.
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
“Foot” comes from Proto-Indo-European *pōd-, something like this:
🔈https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/foot-from-PIE-pod.wav*pōd- developed into Sanskrit पद pad, now a “learnèd word” in Hindi:
🔈https://ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pod-to-Hindi-pad.wavIn Balochi, it's پاد paad:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pod-to-Balochi-paad.wavAnd in Pashto, it comes out as پل pal “footstep”, with *d developing into [l] (“lambdacism”):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-pod-to-Pashto-pal.wav#linguistics #etymology #EnglishLanguage #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Sanskrit #Balochi #Pashto
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
“Weave” and “web” come from Proto-Indo-European *h₁webʰ, like this (listen):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/weave-from-PIE-h1webh.wav
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/web-from-PIE-h1webh.wav*h₁webʰ also developed into Pashto اوبدل obdal "knit, crochet, weave":
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1webh-to-Pashto-obdal.wavBalochi گْوَپت gwap:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1webh-to-Balochi-gwap.wavand Persian بافتن baaftan:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1webh-to-Persian-baaftan.wavPic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BVb2zAZo-E
#linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #acousticphonetics #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Pashto #Balochi #Persian
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
“Two” comes (via Anglo-Saxon twa) from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁- [dwoh]:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/two-from-PIE-dwoh1.wav*dwóh₁- led to Pashto دوه duwa:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-dwoh1-to-Pashto-duwa.wavBalochi (and Urdu) دو doo:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-dwoh1-to-Balochi-doo.wavand Romani dui:
http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-dwoh1-to-Romani-dui.wavMore examples at http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/jcoleman/ancient-sounds-database.html
@linguistics #linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #acousticphonetics #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Pashto #Balochi #Urdu #Romani
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Audio Etymologies of the Day
At https://www.ancientsounds.net/#five I've just added a bunch of simulations showing how "five" is related to Proto-Indo-Iranian and #Sanskrit पञ्च pancha, from which come #Urdu پانچ panch (borrowed into English “punch”, a drink made of 5 ingredients), #Balochi پنچ panch, #Punjabi ਪੰਜ panj (as in ਪੰਜਾਬ Punj ab “(land of) five rivers”), #Persian پنج panj, European #Romani panzh, #Ossetian фондз fondz and #Pashto پنځه pinza.
And #Welsh pump, which is not Indo-Iranian obvs.