Sunday, August 16, 2020

Indoeuropean-Sumerian-Turkish-Words-for-Tree

A nice sunday! 


https://indo-european.info/indoeuropean.html


says:


Root aig- means tree, specially oak (German Eiche)

Sumerian dictionary 

https://www.sumerian.org/sumerian.pdf

says:


and I say

Modern Turkish ağaç (tree) with old and dialectical versions like 

Old versions like: ığaçyığaç


ağaş, ıyaş, yığaş


are all similar. 


They cognate with each other.


And as bonus the words Latin acacia and Greek ἀκακία are similar to others, too.


Uzunbacak Adem


Acacia, Akasya

pic: wikipedia

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