Talk:فتيل


 * 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 (with  variant) should be from another Semitic language. Compare also 🇨🇬 . When I was in Urmia, I had an Assyrian friend. He told me we say pilīt.--Calak (talk) 12:42, 10 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Those are then from the Aramaic I have added to wick. Don’t know where the Georgian is from, Georgian apparently does not have /f/. Fay Freak (talk) 12:45, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * We can also add 🇨🇬 here. : Can you create its Proto-Semitic?--Calak (talk) 13:03, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * must suffice. I see no evidence that it existed in Proto-Semitic, it is only in Aramaic and Arabic (by form a passive participle of the verb “to twist“; and possible even the Arabic meaning of a lamp-wick is a semantic loan from Aramaic) and with a different pattern in Ethiopic; though I can create the verb which I see in Akkadian.  Fay Freak (talk) 13:53, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you.--Calak (talk) 15:08, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Ačaṙean lists many other members of this Sippe of words, the interrelationship between which is not clear to me. Georgian 🇨🇬 is easy. It must be from Ottoman Turkish, where /f/ was regularly replaced by /pʰ/. For Armenian Ačaṙean implausibly claims Chagatai pilta as the immediate source, apparently because of the form. Apart from Calak's words above, the following also have p- and a tl > lt metathesis: 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬; dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, many other Turkic forms; 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬, Persian paltaʾ. Räsänen apud  explains p- and a tl > lt as a sound law within Turkic. --Vahag (talk) 20:43, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comment Vahag. tl > lt metathesis has another evidence in Kurdish; fitilîn, felitîn.--Calak (talk) 21:14, 10 August 2018 (UTC)