Timeline for ʕattiq, antiquus
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| Dec 27, 2021 at 16:35 | comment | added | Anixx | But word coincidences happen. For instance, there is an Italian word "strano", meaning "strange" and a Russian word "stranno" meaning the same. And they are entirely unrelated. | |
| Dec 27, 2021 at 16:29 | comment | added | Anixx | There are some other resembling words about which one can only speculate, such as Russian tsvet "color" and Hebrew tseva "color", Russian doroga "road" and Hebrew dereh "road". The word meaning "is" in Hebrew is yesh, resembling Russian yest' and transliterated like "is", resembling the English one. The words for "six" (shesh, similar to Russian shest') and seven (sheva) also resemble the IE ones, but these are often conjectured to be PIE-time borrowings. One more is the Hebrew word "she" which means "that", as in "said that...", "knew that...", similar to Russian "shto...", Ukrainian "sho". | |
| Dec 27, 2021 at 15:19 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | @Anixx Very good point! I didn't bother to look at the date of the etymology on Wiktionary and that would be a plausible relationship. Looking at cognates, though, I see it does appear in the Qur'an, so ʕattiq definitely isn't in that class. | |
| Dec 27, 2021 at 5:29 | comment | added | Anixx | There are some Hebrew words that while originate from ancient roots, were chosen specifically to resemble European words. Like "mekanit" for automobile, "mekhandes" for engineer, "kalkelan" for economist, "masika" for a mask etc. | |
| Dec 25, 2021 at 23:54 | vote | accept | Luke Sawczak | ||
| Dec 24, 2021 at 21:23 | answer | added | fdb | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 21:20 | history | asked | Luke Sawczak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |