I was reviewing **B. Blake's definition of case and came across a Turkish"adam" is also used in Azerbaijani and Persian, but the etymological dictionaries of both languages list it as a loan from Arabic. In Turkish and Azerbaijani it is also contrasted with the name Adam (which is identical in Arabic and Persian as well as in Hebrew), "Adem" in Turkish and "Adəm" in Azerbaijani. This latter form is the more regular loan form from Arabic, e/ə representing Arabic short a, but in the Turkic languages the common noun has been adjusted to fit Turkic vowel harmony rules.
example with the word "adam" which means man. Well, this looks kind of
familiar does it not?
Is "adam" in Turkish a loan word and if so from what language?
greetings,
Clay Bartholomew
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