More on Persian kinship terms; "daughter" and the laryngeals

Language Log 2020-03-19

Summary:

Following up on "Turandot and the deep Indo-European roots of 'daughter'" (3/16/20), John Mullan (student of Arabic, master calligrapher, and expert chorister) writes: As someone who's studied a bit of Persian and a few other Indo European languages, I've always found it odd that most all of the kinship terms in Persian—mādar, pedar, barādar, dokhtar, […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=46457&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-on-persian-kinship-terms-daughter-and-the-laryngeals

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Victor Mair

Date tagged:

03/19/2020, 01:14

Date published:

03/18/2020, 09:42