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> (in?)famous -stan suffix, coming originally from Persian Does it come from Persian or some common Indo European language, Sanskrit has something similar as w
by sumedh 2y ago
> (in?)famous -stan suffix, coming originally from Persian
Does it come from Persian or some common Indo European language, Sanskrit has something similar as well.
- theanonymousone 2y agoI always thought it's Persian, but it may be older, and it does certainly have cognates in Sanskrit too. Wiktionary is amazing for such information.
- hot_gril 2y agoIt's an extremely old word