• Dojan@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Is tori ever used like plaza, like the Swedish word “torg?” The way I read tori in my head makes it sound almost homophonous with torg, hence why I ask.

      • Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz
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        5 months ago

        A number of Slavic, Baltic, Norse, (and also Finnic languages like Finnish and Estonian) use some form of this word for market. It originated in Proto-slavic and passed through Old Norse into descendant languages.

        https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/търгъ#Old_East_Slavic

        The most interesting thing is that the root appears to have borrowed into Finnish twice, once probably from Slavic (as turku) and once from Old Norse (as tori).