Sunday, April 17, 2022

Etymology-of-Turkish-Karpuz-Watermelon-Ideas

Watermelon-karpuz-pic:WIKI

Generally accepted that the Turkish karpuz (watermelon) derived from Greek karpós καρπός (Fruit).


A big but:

Nisanyan points in addition to its possible 🇬🇷origin, 2 🇹🇷 words out> kar-buz (Kar: snow/buz: ice)

He adds Armenian and Georgian watermelon words having similar etymo: Arm ձմերուկ karpuz < ձմեռ kış(winter) Geo საზამთრო karpuz < ზამთარი kış




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In Mycenaean times there was a fruit like that, acc. to wiki.


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