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Is Mongolian "шинэ" / "ᠰᠢᠨ᠎ᠠ", meaning "new", a borrowing of Chinese "新"?

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Can the root ש ל ם be used to mean “Submission”?

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Languages where the word for addict references submission

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Mechanism(s) as to how the pronunciations of「也」and its Old Chinese "homophones"/phonetically-derivative glyphs drifted to the modern range of sounds?

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Why is "knife" in Ukrainian different from other Slavic languages?

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How did خشاب become the Persian word for magazine?

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Is it a coincidence that both Italian and German use third person feminine pronouns for formal second-person address?

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What recent (since 2014) work is there on the origin of the Indo-European 1st person singular nominative ego (etc.)?

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Is Etruscan zivas "to live" a borrowing from some IE language?

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Does Sanskrit निस् • (nis) "out, forth, away" come from PIE *ni- "in; down?" with meaning shift from "in" to "out"?

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Evolution of the sense of Logos

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Could the Romanian gând/gândi (thought/think) be ultimately of Latin and/or Albanian origin?

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How certain is the Latin origin of Albanian ”gënjej” (to lie) from Latin (ingannō<ganniō)?

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