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The study of the history of words including their origins and the changes they've undergone through time.

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Are German Rahmen and English frame cognates, and if so, where does the f come from/how did ...

The German word Rahmen, which means frame (something you can put a picture in), looks like it could be cognate with frame if one could explain the initial f in English (or its loss in German). Is ther …
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Did Latin "cum" get replaced in French by "avec" because "con" sounded obscene?

While the words for "with" in most Romance languages seem to be direct descendents from Latin "cum" (e.g. Spanish/Italian "con", Portuguese "com", Romanian "cu") it got replaced by "avec" in French. C …
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