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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

Cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/1728128

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[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 3 points 6 months ago

Probably it got on the red side because it is a "compound" word шамфъстък where the second part (фъстък) is similar to the languages of the eastern part.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah definitely that. In Turkish, for example, the actual world is Şam Fıstığı ("Fıstık" as root), with literal translation would be "Damascus Peanut").

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