Query: "-stan" in "Afghanistan"

[A. Maberry]

Also, not confined to countries like Afghanistan, Yunanistan (Greece),
e.g., gulistan "rose garden" (gul = "rose"), bimaristan "hospital" (bimar
= "sick, ill)".

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:

> See for example
>
> http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg05688.html
>
> http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg05689.html
>
> ... apparently from Old Persian, from IE *sta-, cognate with English
> "stand", "state", "stead", German "Stadt", Latin "statio", etc.
>
> ... apparently with the idea of "place".
>
> -- Doug Wilson
>