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, […]