Where does “замана” come from?
замана (Kumyk) comes from Persian زمانه, from Persian ـه, from Proto-Iranian -akah, from Proto-Iranian -kah, from Proto-Austronesian ka — if.
замана (Kumyk): period in a society's history; epoch
Definitions
- period in a society's history; epoch
Ancestry of “замана”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Persian | زمانه | age, epoch; fortune; world |
| 2 | Persian | ـه | Forms the past participle from the past stem |
| 3 | Proto-Iranian | -akah | Creates deadjectival and desubstantival... |
| 4 | Proto-Iranian | -kah | — |
| 5 | Proto-Austronesian | ka | if |