Talk:Bedesten/Archives/2012
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Merging
Article merged: See old talk-page here
--Antidiskriminator (talk) 09:41, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Requested move
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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:21, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:ENGLISH Google Books Search on english language has much more hits for Bedesten then for Bedestan :
- Bedestan (5,580 hits)
- Bedesten (8,770)
Antidiskriminator (talk) 10:00, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
- Support. The figures given above are Google estimates, and may be unreliable. More focused and contextual Googlebook searches to support the move, both restricted with "Books›Jan 1, 1980–Nov 5, 2011":
"a bedesten": 49 genuine hits
"a bedestan": 32 genuine hits
- See also this ngrams report for "bedesten,Bedesten,bedestan,Bedestan".
- And finally, see the Turkish Wikipedia article: Bedesten. The alteration of the Persian etymon -istan, familiar from other derivatives, appears to be due to Turkish vowel harmony, which assimilates the back vowel represented by that a to the front vowel in bed-, with a similar shift for the i.
- NoeticaTea? 01:45, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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