Verse:Irta/English/Non-Azalic etyma

A list of English words not inherited from Proto-Azalic. (with etymologies different from Earth etymologies)

Semitic

• boor from Hebrew בור 'ignoramus'
• 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 Cubrite ᴋrí /kʰɹəj/, from Ancient Cubrite 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 Canaanite or Togarmic source: hykki/hiwkki 'coziness' (u-umlaut of i) < *higgūj (verbal noun of *higgV:), cognate of Hebrew הגה 'to contemplate, to utter/speak'

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
• karma from Mitanni kármə

Italo-Celtic and Greek

• 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 <- An Bhlaoighne amhlaindh <- Kwenya αμυνδαλη amwindalya <- Greek amygdalē (gd -> nd is a regular sound change in Kwenya)

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)

Camalic

• dance, from Old Padmanábha dannsa, from the root dan (rhythm; onomatopoetic)
• wife from Padmanābha wayeoph (lady, Mrs.)
• fiasco <- Old Padm. fias có
• trumpet from Old Padm.
• pizza from ??? pītsa, diminutive of pīta from Greek?

Padmanábha? L-Arabic? fíl "to feel" twitj "to twitch" wíd "weed" rén "rain" gárlic, líc "garlic, leek" brod "broad" síl "seal" slíp "to sleep" hapí "happy" sjtik "word, utterance" (-> shtick) sjpil "game"

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