Talk:ezer
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Stephen G. Brown in topic Etymology
Etymology[edit]
The 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)