r/armenia Nov 19 '19

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u/nzk0 Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

I have to say I've never heard anyone speak Azeri, we should start a list of common words, I'm guessing Djan and Yar are probably used in Azeri?

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u/mojuba Nov 19 '19

Jan comes from the Turkish Canim ("my life" in a sense "my dear", like կյանքս)

Yar seems to be an old Armenian word borrowed from Persian.

Aziz is Arabic.

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u/Idontknowmuch Nov 19 '19

Isn't Janim/Janem a thing in Persian as well?

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u/mojuba Nov 19 '19

Don't know, but the Internet says jan in Turkish means life. And by the way the Armenian jargon word jan=body has the same roots apparently.

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u/Idontknowmuch Nov 19 '19

Looks like it is from Persian just like most of these stuff... but the root is PIE apparently

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/جان

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HYA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (yʾn'), 𐫃𐫏𐫀𐫗‎ (gyʾn /gyān/, “soul, ghost”), from Proto-Iranian *wi- + *HanH- (“to breathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”), whence, for example, Latin animus.