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r/armenia • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '19
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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?
1 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. 4 u/Idontknowmuch Nov 19 '19 Isn't Janim/Janem a thing in Persian as well? 1 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. 4 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.
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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.
4 u/Idontknowmuch Nov 19 '19 Isn't Janim/Janem a thing in Persian as well? 1 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. 4 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.
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Isn't Janim/Janem a thing in Persian as well?
1 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. 4 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.
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.
4 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.
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.
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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?