[Lavengro by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookLavengro CHAPTER XLVI 5/5
Morro--manro! I rather think morro is the oldest form; it is easier to say morro than manro. Morro! Irish, aran; Welsh, bara; English, bread.
I can see a resemblance between all the words, and pannam too; and I rather think that the Petulengrian word is the elder.
How odd it would be if the language of Mr.Petulengro should eventually turn out to be the mother of all the languages in the world; yet it is certain that there are some languages in which the terms for bread have no connection with the word used by Mr.Petulengro, notwithstanding those languages, in many other points, exhibit a close affinity to the language of the horse-shoe master: for example, bread, in Hebrew, is Laham, which assuredly exhibits little similitude to the word used by the aforesaid Petulengro.
In Armenian it is--" "Zhats!" said the stranger, starting up.
"By the Patriarch and the Three Holy Churches, this is wonderful! How came you to know aught of Armenian ?".
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