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Why is the word for the color orange always the same as the fruit orange? [duplicate]
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The relationship between “orange” the colour and “orange” the fruit
It's like that in Spanish, French, English, and I'm starting to wonder how many others.
It's not ...
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How did the first words arise?
As far as I know linguists consider language arbitrary. If so, how does etymology work? We have a word and we trace it back to its origins. Then, we find that it either comes from a different language ...
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Monogenesis vs. Polygenesis
By following the comments to another question about the evolution of Khoisan languages, I learned that there is a heated debate in Evolutionary Linguistics about the origin of language. Some quick ...
