Comparing to the same words in my language, I wonder how many were taken from Greek (a lot of them were) compared to the ones that evolved from the same root word, since both Polish and Greek (and English) are Indo-European.
It’s all Greek to me.
How could they miss gyro?
Oh noes, I didn’t know geography was a greek word. In other news – grass is green
Roughly the same amount of Turkish vocabulary that Greeks use.
Just as in real life, stealing Persian stuff and claiming it was theirs, I see.
Is “debt” one of those?
Weird way of saying Byzantine
She forgot Kimono
Phonetic character lead EU have over 26 languages
There are 413 Greek words in Turkish vocabulary. Lots of fish names also come from Greek such as Çipura(pronounced as Çupra) this is one of the very rare instances where the pronunciation is wildly different than what is written. A Greek guy told me it was similar in Greek as well.
Normally Turkish words are pronounced very consistently, foreign words are the exception.
I’m not so sure about some of these… where do `box` or `church` derive from?
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Comparing to the same words in my language, I wonder how many were taken from Greek (a lot of them were) compared to the ones that evolved from the same root word, since both Polish and Greek (and English) are Indo-European.
It’s all Greek to me.
How could they miss gyro?
Oh noes, I didn’t know geography was a greek word. In other news – grass is green
Roughly the same amount of Turkish vocabulary that Greeks use.
Just as in real life, stealing Persian stuff and claiming it was theirs, I see.
Is “debt” one of those?
Weird way of saying Byzantine
She forgot Kimono
Phonetic character lead EU have over 26 languages
There are 413 Greek words in Turkish vocabulary. Lots of fish names also come from Greek such as Çipura(pronounced as Çupra) this is one of the very rare instances where the pronunciation is wildly different than what is written. A Greek guy told me it was similar in Greek as well.
Normally Turkish words are pronounced very consistently, foreign words are the exception.
I’m not so sure about some of these… where do `box` or `church` derive from?