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#nowplaying

Sweet Ting - Diljit Dosanjh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vnnb9EKxFk
#music #punjabi

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.

Audio Etymologies of the Day

"Quern" come from #Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₂-nu-, something like this:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/quern-from-PIE-gwerh2n.wav

*gʷerh₂- also developed into #Balochi گران graan “heavy”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gwerh2n-to-Balochi-gran.wav

#Punjabi ਗੁਰ gur, as in ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ gurdwara “gateway to the gurus” (= Sikh temple):
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gwerh2-to-Punjabi-gur.wav

Ancient #Greek βάρος baros “weight”:
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gweh2rus-to-AncientGreek-baros.wav

Scottish #Gaelic brà “quern”
🔈http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-gwreh2-to-Gaelic-bra.wav

@linguistics #audio #etymology #phonetics #EnglishLanguage