A EURASIAN ETYMOLOGY: SARMYSAK < *K’IRMUS(V)/KERMUS(V)/KARMUS(V) ‘GARLIC'
A EURASIAN ETYMOLOGY: SARMYSAK < *K’IRMUS(V)/KERMUS(V)/KARMUS(V) ‘GARLIC'
Author(s): Mária Magdolna TatárSubject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: linguisticts; Turcology; Mongolian and Indo-European studies; history of languages; etymologies;
Summary/Abstract: In this article a new etymology is presented for an important cultural “Wanderwort”, “garlic”. The author uses the earlier elaborated etymologies of Turkic, Mongolie and Indo-European languages by explaining the well-known Turkic sarmysak ‘garlic’ as an Indo-European loan word. This explanation is based on Iranian data which were not used by the linguists before.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 55/2002
- Issue No: 1-3
- Page Range: 237-251
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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