A Wanderwort (German: [ˈvandɐvɔʁt], 'migrant word', sometimes pluralized as Wanderwörter, usually capitalized following German practice) is a word that...
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abandon it for another target language (the superstrate).[relevant?] A Wanderwort is a word that has been borrowed across a wide range of languages remote...
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to new areas, via the Dravidian languages of India, into Arabic as a Wanderwort. The word "banana" is thought to be of West African origin, possibly from...
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Semitic language, as both saif and xiphos go back to an old (Bronze Age) wanderwort of the Eastern Mediterranean of unknown ultimate origin. Richard F. Burton...
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grammatical form. ⟨%⟩ A generalized form, such as a typical shape of a wanderwort that has not actually been reconstructed. ⟨#⟩ A word boundary – e.g. ⟨#V⟩...
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*mayVr (whence the Tamil word for peacock மயில் (mayil)) or a regional Wanderwort. Many Hindu deities are associated with the bird, Krishna is often depicted...
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kakumei ('revolution'). Gairaigo Inkhorn term Language contact Loanword Wanderwort Word coinage Imperative form of the verb tenir, "to hold". figuratively...
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origin, although their morphology rather suggest a non-Indo-European Wanderwort. Some scholars have thus proposed a Paleo-Hispanic origin, pointing to...
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Trans-New Guinea. This is because they are more likely to be an areal form (Wanderwort) in the case of the word for 'louse' or to be highly conservative in the...
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distribution. In addition, the word for ‘metal’ or ‘copper’ is actually a Wanderwort (cf. North Saami veaiki, Finnish vaski ‘copper, bronze’, Hungarian vas...
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ὄρυζα, Sanskrit vrīhí- ("rice"). The 'rice' words in Gk and IIr are wanderworts. The Gk word may be borrowed from an Eastern Iranian language. βρυνχός...
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(*kuru or *kolo) which meant castle or fortress. The word was possibly a Wanderwort like the Middle Mongolian qoto-n. Several possible cognates for 忽 exist...
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the Dravidian languages of India, into Persian, Greek, and Arabic as a Wanderwort: The late Latin term musa was later chosen by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, as...
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analogous phonetic changes in Gothic, North Germanic and modern Faroese Wanderwort, "migratory term/word", a word which spreads from its original language...
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contend that the word cannabis likely spread later across Eurasia as a Wanderwort ('wandering word'), ultimately borrowed into Ancient Greek and Sanskrit...
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Proto-Niger–Congo). These roots are generally widespread areal forms (Wanderworts), with some of them also found in Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages...
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viewed language as an organic system and warned against loan words and Wanderworts, which spread as loanwords among languages and cultures, and which can...
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