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Is PIE weyh₁ (to hunt, persecute) somehow related to PIE weyk (to separate, to select for sacrifice)

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How to practically apply Grimm and Verner's law to english and Spanish

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The relationship between Mora-timed languages, long vowels and quantitative verse, also the status of Iranian and Balto-Slavo-Germanic?

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Can it be that the etymology of the Balkan root for "tickle" stretches as far as Korean?

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Ethymology of Kalb/Canis

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Why are the Dutch called "belanda" in Malay and Indonesian?

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Are there many "lexical universals" like mama/papa - based on similar re-creation?

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Why is the English name for Bruges the same as the French despite that it's a Flemish city?

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What is the etymology of the Maghrebi interjection "شاه" (chah or cheh)?

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Origin of Italian plurals

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Why is the proto-italic reconstruction of "corpora" "*korpezā"?

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Might Mongolian "хэл" and Proto-Finnic "*keeli" be related?

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Etymology of Persian city suffix +jand

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What are the incentives for neologisms (new words)?

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