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"willdereck" wrote ... Harlan Messinger wrote... (Igor Sklar) wrote: There is another Polish/Russian word which has veery distant Chinese roots: Pol. farfura ('porcelain'), Russ. farfor - Turk. farfur - Pers/Arab fagfur ('a Chinese province, a title of Chinese emperor') - Old Pers. bagapura, translated from Chin. tien-tse ('son of Heaven') [Vasmer, IV, 186-187] A translation isn't a loan word. So it's a loan word from Turkish, but not from Chinese. I found the word in Romanian language - farfuria "plate". Romanians are the descendants of Dacians Thracians, the ancient inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula and parts of Anatolia (Homer, Herodotus, Tacitus, Strabo, etc). They are speaking a Romance language. And of course, Romanian borrowed quite a few words from Turkish in the days of the Ottomans J. |
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