Talk:དེབ
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Metaknowledge
@Crom daba: Is this from Mongolian? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 17:53, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra) probably. Mongolian has дэвтэр (devter) but maybe Tibetan borrowed it from Uyghur or something, I'm not knowledgeable on Tibetan language contacts outside of Mongolian. Crom daba (talk) 17:59, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- Hmm, thanks. I'll leave it be unless I can find a source for how it got there. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 18:34, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- Dan Martin has "For derivation, see Beyer, CT Lang. 140 where he says it may come ultimately from Greek diphtherA ('parchment'), and so is related to English diptheria (because of the 'parchment' that forms on the skin)." on the entry for དེབ་ཐེར (deb ther), so maybe Beyer knows how it got there Crom daba (talk) 08:52, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- And I just returned my damn copy of Beyer! Thanks, though. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 18:04, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- Beyer discusses it briefly and Laufer in more detail, so I'll add it to the Tibetan and the Mongolian entries. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:20, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- Dan Martin has "For derivation, see Beyer, CT Lang. 140 where he says it may come ultimately from Greek diphtherA ('parchment'), and so is related to English diptheria (because of the 'parchment' that forms on the skin)." on the entry for དེབ་ཐེར (deb ther), so maybe Beyer knows how it got there Crom daba (talk) 08:52, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
- Hmm, thanks. I'll leave it be unless I can find a source for how it got there. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 18:34, 28 October 2016 (UTC)