Turco-Afghanica

Johnny Cheung (1) , Hakan Aydemir

1 Mondes Iranien et Indien - UMR 7528

A certain resemblance can be noted between several Iranian designations found in (Greater) Afghanistan, such as Wakhi mыr, Shughni mūn, Pashto maṇá < *amarnā and their Turkic correspondences, alma, alïmla, almïla, for ‘apple’. This includes similar looking forms in Indic (Sanskrit āmrá- ‘mango(tree)’, etc.), Finno-Ugric (e.g. Finnish omena), in Latin (mālum), Greek (μῆλον, μᾶλον) and Hittite maḫla-. These forms will be discussed and analyzed in order to explain the resemblance, whether they are cognate, borrowed or coincidental. The discussion will also involve the Northern European forms for ‘apple’, Germanic (e.g. English apple, German Apfel), Balto-Slavic (e.g. Lithuanian obuolỹs, Russian яблоко), and Celtic (e.g. Welsh afal).

Mots clés: Wortforschung; Apfel; Indogermanistik; Iranistik; Ostiranisch

Mots clés: turcology; philology; East Iranian; etymology; indo-european studies; apple

Mots clés: philologie indo-européenne; pashto; Afghanistan; Afghanistan pré-islamique; turcologie; études indo-européennes; philologie iranienne; etymologie; pomme; les langues iraniennes

Domaines: Linguistique; Littératures; Histoire

Johnny Cheung, Hakan Aydemir. Turco-Afghanica: On East Iranian *amarnā and Turkic alma, alïmla, almïla ‘apple’. Mikhail Pelevin. «НА ПАСТБИЩЕ МЫСЛИ БЛАГОЙ», Сборник статей к юбилею И. М. Стеблин-Каменского (« Au Pâturage de la Bonne Pensée, mélanges pour l’anniversaire d’I. M. Steblin-Kamensky »), Kontrast, pp.73-94, 2015, 978-5-4380-0125-6. ⟨hal-01246193⟩