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I love that the name for their storage room is very Indo-Germanic: yakh-chal ice-hole Eis-Kuhle [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l h

• thaumasiotes 7y ago
  Indo-Germanic? Persian is very closely related to Sanskrit (and related Indic languages), much more so than Germanic is. The language family is called "Indo-Iranian".
  • geff82 7y ago
    French: two Italian: due French: deux - Persian: do English: I am - Persian: man am English: he is French: il est Persian: u ast french qui/que, persian ki/ke french: tu, persian: to english: brother, german: Bruder, Persian: barodar english: star, persian: setareh (just inserted some vocals) English: Daughter, German: Tochter, Persian: dokhtar Polish: Pienj Persian: Panj (means five) Germanic/latin is more closely related to persian than one would guess.
  • singularity2001 7y ago
    Indo-Germanic is just the old term for the Indo-European language family. Sometimes still used, but partly out of fashion / discredited by politicized Arianism. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indo-Germanic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indo-Germanic [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages