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The Origin of the Word 'God'

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Understanding the etymology of Persian “farāmoş”, to forget

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How “üçün” is Turkic but “çün” is Iranic?

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What semantic notions underlie PIE meh₂d- ('wet') and Proto-Germanic matōną, *matjaną (“to feed, eat”)?

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How does PIE *kʷ in **wĺ̥kʷos change to PGmc. f in wulfaz?

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How did the cross-linguistic univerbation 'nothing/not/none/no + less' semantically shift to signify 'despite'?

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Etymology of the word “šowhar” in Persian

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Why was 'thwart' assigned to PIE *terkw- “to twist”?

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Why are the Dutch called “belanda” in Malay and Indonesian?

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What is a good etymological dictionary for the Persian language?

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Was there a Proto-Germannic root of “miskunn”

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How did 'sitting' semantically shift to mean 'properness'?

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Common root 'to gather' and 'together'

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How did the prefix 'be-' function in 'behind'?

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