• ttayh@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    wait, is that yag also the root for yogurt? sorry for the lack of diacritics

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      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoğurt

      Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt), from Proto-Turkic *yogrut (“curdled, coagulated milk”),[1] from *yogur- (“to knead, to fluff up, to condense”) +‎ *-ut.[2][3] By surface analysis, yoğur- (“to knead”) +‎ -t.

      You can copy and paste them from the Wikipedia article on the Turkish alphabet, or my post if you want