Talk:ezer
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Stephen G. Brown in topic Etymology
Etymology
editThe following etymology for ezer
From an Iranian language, compare Kurdish hezar
was added in this edit. Can anybody verify that this is correct information? — Beobach972 04:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- It makes sense. Compare Armenian: հազար (hazar), Avestan hazanrǝm, Gujarati: હજાર (hajāra), Hindi: हज़ार (hazār), Kurdish: ههزار (hezar, hizar), Persian: هزار (hezār), Punjabi: ਹਜ਼ਾਰ (hazār), Old Persian hāzar, Sanskrit: सहस्र (sa-hasra), Sinhala: දහස (dha-hasa). The other common source of Hungarian words is Turkic, but the Turkic word for thousand is bin. Only the Indo-Aryan languages (and Hungarian) seem to have a word like hazar, and Hungarian was in direct contact only with the Aryan (Iranian) branch. —Stephen 13:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)