mostaleoht

Originally learned from @yakabikaj at 🐦 :

Yiddish באקאליינע bakaleyne "grocery store", came to #Yiddish from #Ukrainian Бакалiя (groceries), to which it came from #Tatar, to which it came from #Persian (بقالی baqqālī,), to which it came from from #Arabic بقالة biqāla (groceries, retail store) or بقال baqqāl. Quite an unusual story of loaning across at least 5 #languages and linguistic families!

#language #etymology #linguistics

Dec 21, 2022 at 12:36amWeb
Show threadA A B, sheDec 23, 2022
@mostaleoht love this
Show threadmonkiJan 8, 2023
@mostaleoht bakkal means small market in Turkish too! They're very small stores you can find in neighborhoods but they're dying because of franchise stores.