- A
Wanderwort (German: [ˈvandɐvɔʁt], 'migrant word',
sometimes pluralized as Wanderwörter,
usually capitalized following German practice) is a word that...
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abandon it for
another target language (the superstrate).[relevant?] A
Wanderwort is a word that has been
borrowed across a wide
range of
languages remote...
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grammatical form. ⟨%⟩ A
generalized form, such as a
typical shape of a
wanderwort that has not
actually been reconstructed. ⟨#⟩ A word
boundary – e.g. ⟨#V⟩...
- to new areas, via the
Dravidian languages of India, into
Arabic as a
Wanderwort. The word "banana" is
thought to be of West
African origin,
possibly from...
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Semitic language, as both saif and
xiphos go back to an old (Bronze Age)
wanderwort of the
Eastern Mediterranean of
unknown ultimate origin.
Richard F. Burton...
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Sanskrit term is a
borrowing from Proto-Dravidian *mayVr or a
regional Wanderwort, that came from mayil, the
Tamil word for pea****. The Pali word Mora...
- Trans-New Guinea. This is
because they are more
likely to be an
areal form (
Wanderwort) in the case of the word for 'louse' or to be
highly conservative in the...
- origin,
although their morphology rather suggest a non-Indo-European
Wanderwort. Some
scholars have thus
proposed a Paleo-Hispanic origin,
pointing to...
- the
Dravidian languages of India, into Persian, Gr****, and
Arabic as a
Wanderwort: The late
Latin term musa was
later chosen by Carl
Linnaeus in 1753, as...
- (*kuru or *kolo)
which meant castle or fortress. The word was
possibly a
Wanderwort like the
Middle Mongolian qoto-n.
Several possible cognates for 忽 exist...
