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Fair point as I'd chosen to use Hindi (culture) rather than India (geographic region), though of course India itself derives from Hindi (the word). A fuller se
by dredmorbius 3y ago
Fair point as I'd chosen to use Hindi (culture) rather than India (geographic region), though of course India itself derives from Hindi (the word).
A fuller set of candidate languages, from Wikipedia: Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, Teluga, Bengali, Assamese, Bengali, and Marathi.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Indian_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_India...>
- marktani 3y agoYou're still missing Persian, which is the direct origin of Khaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki#Etymology Urdu/Hindi and probably lots of other languages in that cultural region have plenty of loanwords from Persian
- dredmorbius 3y agoI'm sure someone will pitch in with specific sub-dialects as well shortly. I'd reported languages based on Wikipedia's citing. That's publicly-editable, and if you have sourced references the links I'd provided can be updated. See also note 1: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436048>