Well I don't know if it is of any help or not but there is this guy called "Baba Tahir Oryan", who lived in the first half of the 11th centuray A.D. Here is a nice poem by him. Also Baba Kuhi who died in 1050 A.D.
Oh, there is this Ali Baba and the story of the 40 thieves, but I don't know where or when he lived. (I can't belive that Wikipedia would make a page for him) Lets say "baba" is a international word.
Does "moron" derive from "moro", like having a baby's intelligence?
Actually you are quite right:
moron
1910, from Gk. (Attic) moron, neut. of moros "foolish, dull" (probably
cognate with Skt. murah "idiotic;" L. morus "foolish" is a loan-word
from Gk.). Adopted by the American Association for the Study of the
Feeble-minded with a technical definition "adult with a mental age between 8 and 12;" used as an insult since 1922 and subsequently dropped from technical use. Linnæus had introduced morisis "idiocy."
www.etymonline.com
We also see "mwrizw, mwrainw" = to be foolish
Originally posted by Oguzoglu
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Maybe those words "baba, papa" etc. were the first
sounds that a baby can make, so it became the name for father. I dont
know.
Herodotus gives us an interesting account on what the first words/sounds a baby could say/make:
" Psammetichus, when he was in no way able to learn by inquiry which
people had first come into being, devised a plan by which he took two
newborn children of the common people and gave them to a shepherd to
bring up among his flocks. He gave instructions that no one was to
speak a word in their hearing; they were to stay by themselves in a
lonely hut, and in due time the shepherd was to bring goats and give
the children their milk and do everything else necessary.
Psammetichus did this, and gave these instructions, because he
wanted to hear what speech would first come from the children, when
they were past the age of indistinct babbling. And he had his wish; for
one day, when the shepherd had done as he was told for two years, both
children ran to him stretching out their hands and calling “Bekos!” as
he opened the door and entered.
When he first heard this, he kept quiet about it; but when, coming
often and paying careful attention, he kept hearing this same word, he
told his master at last and brought the children into the king's
presence as required. Psammetichus then heard them himself, and asked
to what language the word “Bekos” belonged; he found it to be a
Phrygian word, signifying bread. "
(Herodotus Histories 2.2.1-5)
To the gods we mortals are all ignorant.Those old traditions from our ancestors, the ones we've had as long as time itself, no argument will ever overthrow, in spite of subtleties sharp minds invent.
Well, the Greek "re" comes from "Ore" (with omega) which comes from the ancient greek "O" (omega again) but exaggerated.
It is the vocative case, i.e., when you address someone.
A modern equivalent in english is "Yo!"
Also the word 'Hoppa', is also used by Greeks,Turks and ALbanions.
Who do these words originally belong to?
"Hoppa" or "Opa" or "Uep" or "upss", or whatever else similar, are
natural and primal sounds when a sudden, or unexpected, action takes
place.
They are common to most languages and dialects all over the woorld.
Amadeo: It is a myth that Chinese used gunpowder only for fireworks:
they built portable rocket-launchers of all sorts for war. There was a
topic on Chinese warfare some months ago about that - very
interesting.
I had trouble finding out what the participants were discussing.I guess this thread started with names for relatives.
Here are names for relatives in Hindi.In no specific order.
1}Chacha {father's younger brother}.
2}Chachi {chacha's wife}.
3}Tau/Tauji {Ji is a respect marker,can be added to chacha and chachi too} {Tau/Tauji is father's elder brother}.
3}Taiji {Tauji's wife}.
4}Bua {Father's sister}.
5}Phuphaji {Bua's husband}.
6}Mama {If you wish,you may call him mamaji too}{Mother's brother}.
7}Mamiji {The woman who married your mama}.
8}Dadaji {Father's father}.
9}Dadi or dadiji {Father's mother}.
10}Nana {Mother's father}.
11}Nani or naniji {I like irritating people----they show their true colours
when they are irritated----I know by now you know Ji is a respect marker,it can also be attached to beta{son} and beti{daughter} when you are in a good mood}...so my Nani is my mother's mother.Or she was, now.
12}Mausi {or mausiji} {she is another daughter of my Nani/Naniji,who has a different soul and body as compared to my Ma{mother}--in my dialect we also call my Nani/Naniji's daughter who gave birth to me,Bai or Boi.
13}So whom did Mausi marry.My Mausaji.
14}Bhatija{brother's son}.
15}Bhatiji{brother's daughter}.
16}Bhanja{Guess?}
17}Bhanji {My sister gave birth to her and she's a female,like my sister}.
18}There are some other irritating fellas out there.Can't concentrate right now.Would let you know about their existence later,if you are interested.
I want to ask the turk-users of this forum: Please, can someone tell me what are the differences between the words: "cunku", "belki" and "sanki". Because many of the bulgarians are using often these turkic words (蘼臌鳻, 摎鍆鳻 黟臌鳻, and they don`t know that these words have DIFFERENT MEANING !
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