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Persian and English etymologies of the day Nowruz is the Persian New Year festival at the Spring Equinox (20th March). Nowruz means "new light"; Persian now (pronounced like English "no") comes from Proto-Indo-European *neu-io, something like this: 🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-neuio-to-Persian-noo.wav Tajik рӯз and Persian روز, ruz descends from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- [lɘʊk]: 🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leuk-to-Tajik-ruz.wav (Tajik is also an Iranian language, very similar to Iranian Persian.) *leuk- also developed into words for "day" in other Iranian languages, e.g. Balochi روچ [roʧ], something like this: 🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leuk-to-Balochi-roch.wav Kurdish roj [roʒ]: 🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-leuk-to-Kurdish-roj.wav English new and "light" are from the same roots, *neu-io and *leuk- 🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/new-from-PIE-neuio.wav Light (brightness) comes from Proto-Indo-European *leuk-, something like this: 🔊 https://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/light-from-PIE-leuk.wav Image source: https://blog.izapya.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/noroz1.jpeg #Persian #Iranian #English #phonetics #linguistics