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Arabic word for door from root d-l-t or d-l-th

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What does Axel Schuessler mean by "area word"?

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Why is PGmc hanhaną cogante with hōkaz, variant of hakô (“hook”) and not with hanhuz?

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

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Meaning of the root "ject"

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Are the Russian уж (a kind of snake) and узко (narrow) related?

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Etymology of the Turkish word "rüzgâr"

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Linguistic or etymological relationship between the words "Sabbath" and "seven"

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Do the Turkic languages have "-ia" suffix/ending to denote countries or abstract notions?

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origin of the word "de" in the name of Tycho de Brahe, Danish astronomer

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How do new function words develop in a language?

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

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Etymology of "kipos", the greek for garden

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Why is the Croatian word "pjena" (foam) spelt with "je" as if it were from Slavic yat, rather than "i", as it is from Slavic "y"?

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