Saturday, February 11, 2023

English-Other-Turkic-Adir

 



Acc. to Wiktionary the English word "OTHER" has this etymology: 


Etymology[edit]

From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”).

Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvianotrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), 

Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”), Sanskrit अन्य (anyá, “other, different”).


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Very interesting is the Turkic word "AD", meaning diversity, difference, gap.

Turkic verb adır- means to separate, to sort.


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>Old Turkic adır (read it like odder "other " without th sound) 

It means "other".


Look at the other variations of the word in many Turkic dialects:





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Tantalizing, isn't it?


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Uzunbacak Adem 

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