> khaki From Urdu from *Persian*. Persian and Sanskrit are closely related and t...

dredmorbius · 2023-09-30T04:43:41.000000Z

Fair point as I'd chosen to use Hindi (culture) rather than India (geographic region), though of course India itself derives from Hindi (the word).

A fuller set of candidate languages, from Wikipedia: Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, Teluga, Bengali, Assamese, Bengali, and Marathi.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_India...>

marktani · 2023-10-01T12:24:44.000000Z

You're still missing Persian, which is the direct origin of Khaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki#Etymology

Urdu/Hindi and probably lots of other languages in that cultural region have plenty of loanwords from Persian

dredmorbius · 2023-10-01T17:24:49.000000Z

I'm sure someone will pitch in with specific sub-dialects as well shortly.

I'd reported languages based on Wikipedia's citing. That's publicly-editable, and if you have sourced references the links I'd provided can be updated.

See also note 1: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17436048>