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==Italic, Celtic and Greek== | ==Italic, Celtic and Greek== | ||
*''dance'' from Irish ''dannsa'', originally onomatopoeic | |||
*''land'', from Gaulish ''landā'' <- *lendʰ | *''land'', from Gaulish ''landā'' <- *lendʰ | ||
*''island'', from Norman ''isle'' and Gaulish ''landā'' | *''island'', from Norman ''isle'' and Gaulish ''landā'' |
Revision as of 16:47, 24 April 2022
A list of English words not inherited from Proto-Azalic. (with etymologies different from Earth etymologies)
Semitic
- boor from Hebraeo-An Yidish בּוּר 'ignoramus', via dialectal Irtan Irish búr
- dint as in by dint of from Togarmite dint 'judgment, sentence', from the root √d-(j)-n 'to opine, to judge'
- main meaning 'high seas' from Togarmite mein 'water' (cognate to Hebrew מים máyim)
- weird from OTog yėred 'conspicuous', active participle of yarād 'to appear, to descend', via a Brythonic language
- fellow from OTog φallāh
- ennui from Togarmite ȝanúj 'existential angst', originally 'suffering' in Early Modern Togarmite but it fell out of use and was revived as a philosophical term;, ~ Hebrew עינוי ʕinnuy 'torment, torture' (root ʕ-n-y "poor, affliction", doublet of native Togarmite ȝanėþ 'to need')
- elite from Aramaic עליתא ʕelitå "upper story"
- mesmerize from Togarmite myzmerezi "to play the myzmer"
- hobby from Togarmite habi
- cry from Crannish ᴋrí /kʰɹəj/, from Ancient Crannish ᴋarīhā 'calling', Semitic root √q-r-ʔ
- fast originally meant 'direct, easy' and came from Togarmite *fásat 'it was easy/simple', meaning influenced by Aramaic pešit 'simple'
- raven from Togarmite 3reivun 'big crow'
- hygge from a Crannish or Togarmic source: hykki/hiwkki 'coziness' (u-umlaut of i) < *higgūj (verbal noun of *higgV:), cognate of Hebrew הגה 'to contemplate, to utter/speak'
- touch: its Vulgar Latin source tuccāre 'to touch' comes from a stage of Crannish *tə-hukkō 'he was hit' (~ Hebrew hikkå 'he hit') or *tə-huggaȝ 'he reached' (gg = /k⁼/) (~ Hebrew higia3 'he reached')
Indo-Iranian and Mixolydian
- bad, from Naušahri bad
- shelter, from Mixolydian šelter <- šeltrą, ultimately from ḱel-dʰrom
- curry, from Mixolydian kari <- karyą, ultimately from gʷʰor-yom (lit. "warm" or "cooked")
- vessel, from Mixolydian vesel <- veslą, ultimately from *weǵʰ-slom (cognate with Czech veslo "oar")
- sauna from Mixolydian snono <- PIE sneh2on-eh2
- path from Mixolydian paθ, from Old Nomadic Mixolydian paθą "flight", from PIE poth2om
Italic, Celtic and Greek
- dance from Irish dannsa, originally onomatopoeic
- land, from Gaulish landā <- *lendʰ
- island, from Norman isle and Gaulish landā
- tread, trot; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tregess "foot"
- eigenvalue <- Galatian aegen <- h₂eyḱ-iHn-eh₂
- fiddle <- Latin fidicula <- fidēs <- Greek sphídē
- pasta <- Latin pasta, via Greek
- embassy <- Kwenya εμβασεια ëmbasia <- Proto-Celtic ambaxtyā
- ambassador <- Kwenya εμβασειαδηρ ëmbasiadyar <- Greek -αδης
- almond <- Kwenya αμυνδαλη amwindalya <- Greek amygdalē (gd -> nd is a regular sound change in Kwenya)
- broad (referring to accents) is originally a calque from Corsican Irish fuaimniú (?) leathan 'broad pronunciation', referring to Irish slender consonants depalatalizing and broad consonants becoming Arabic emphatic consonants in broad Corsican Irish
- run amok from Irish amach 'outward', via Albionian šapo amók 'to run out of control'
Hivantish
- zillion from zillių '10,000', via Hellenic
- pukka from pokw-? (unlike im our timeline, in Irta it is sometimes pronounced with the FOOT vowel reflecting the Hivantish o -> u sound change)
Balkhan
Most words that come from Italian in our timeline come from Balkhan.
- dolma from Balkhan dôlma-dâkia "grape leaf"
- pilaf from Naušahri pelav, from Balkhan pilav- "to mix"
- extravaganza from Balkhan kstravagẫza, from Latin extrāvagantia
- balcony from Balkhan balkhani
- stanza from Balkhan stẫza "thesis", semantically drifted from Latin stāntia
- patio from Balkhan pattia "lawn"
- mezzanine from Balkhan mazyanîna, from Vulgar Latin *mediānīnus
- veranda from Balkhan varânda
- imbroglio and embroil from Balkhan imbrôlya, from imbra "to confuse" (embroil was influenced by the native verb broil <- PAz bhruq̇el-)
- zucchini from Balkhan zukkîna, from Balkhan zukka "bottle gourd"
- flu; influenza from Balkhan ĩfluyẽza, from Latin influentia
Ex nihilo
- glissando, originally a phonetics term