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GenFatAss t1_itzi0zw wrote

Reply to comment by mmikhailidi in Enheduanna: The World's First Named Author by SirBettington

Well I can't pass that one up I'll would like to see what you can do with this word. "teriyaki"

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mmikhailidi t1_itzjfra wrote

Teri comes from Terra, means Earth, or the world

Yaki comes from γιατί means "why". So "why in a world you like this if there are roasted goat with herbs and garlic!" There you go!!

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Jtoa3 t1_iu08nly wrote

All jokes aside, I did try to see if there was a relation. I didn't do it for both parts of the word, too much work, but it's unlikely teriyaki is related to greek in any meaningful way. the suffix Yaki can ultimately be traced to Proto-Austronese, like many southeast asian languages. This is a seperate language family from Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor language of Greek and many other languages. these groups may share a common language ancestor, but may also not. Language developed hundreds of thousands of years before the earliest reconstructed proto languages, so we simply don't know if they developed in parallel in totally disparate cultures, or if they both developed from a shared language that has been lost to time.

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