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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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Origins of "Mark" as "symbol"
Modern ‘mark’ has has a quite complicated etymology, too, merging together at least three different cognates: Old English mearc (strong feminine declension) = boundary, borderland, present with this meaning …
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Why aren't linguists formally trained in etymology?
There are at least two current uses of the word "linguist".
In one more restricted sense, used especially in America, "linguistics" refers to the Chomskian program to investigate the human faculty of …
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Do words Deus and idea share the root?
Deus "god" is believed to come from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *deywós, a derivative of *dyew- "sky, bright" (from which we get words like Latin dīes "day").
"Idea" comes from Greek idéia, from PIE *w …
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Relationship between Geneva and gin?
Geneva is ultimately from Latin Genāva, with the etymology you pointed, and unrelated to iūniperus. …
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Is by - near - related to bi - double?
Latin bi- comes from earlier Latin dui-. It’s related to Greek di-, coming ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *dwís ‘double’, a form of *dwóh₁ ‘two’ (from which the English). Latin compounds w …
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Etymology of ぐるぐる
Chinese gūlu < *kʰaːroːɡ is probably not onomatopoeic, especially if it came from (PIE) *kʷékʷlos "wheel" (related to English "circle") as Bauer suggests.
Japanese guruguru "round and round" is standa …
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Are English 'gay' and Norwegian 'gøy' cognates?
According to the Norske Akademis Ordbok, gøy is from English “gay”.
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