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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

From earlier زمی‎ (zami), from Middle Persian zmyk' (zamīg, “earth”), from Proto-Iranian *jáHs (compare Northern Kurdish zevî, Northern Luri زمی‎ (zemi), Avestan 𐬰𐬃‎ (zā̊)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰžʰáHs (compare Sanskrit क्ष (kṣa)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (compare Russian земля́ (zemljá), Latvian zeme, Latin humus, Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn)).

apparently so, that's pretty cool.

on the other hand, Persian and my language use a lot of Russian loan-words too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

'zameen' means the same thing in Persian actually. I know they're basically directly related languages, but for some reason it always surprises me how many cognates there are.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (13 children)

how do you say 'living space' in Hindi?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Germany should not have been allowed to exist after WW2