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In Greek, the PIE verbal roots *dheh1 'put' or 'do', *Hieh1 'throw', and *deh3 'give' show up with an unexpected -k- in some aorist forms: ἔθηκα, ἧκα, ἔδωκα. In Latin, the reflexes of the first two ro …

It's obviously impossible to disprove an etymology based on an unknown language, but here are some things to note: The Greek word in question (assuming it's one word -- the range of meanings is very broad … If so, that would necessitate one additional metathesis in your etymology, or else a different derivation like *kʷekʷros > *kʷrekʷos. …

This is a specific subtype of exocentric compound. An exocentric compound is one which doesn't inherit the type of either of its constituents: a scarecrow is neither a type of crow nor a type of scari …

This arguably happens in cases where what are historically homonyms come to be perceived as a single lexeme. Consider English ear (body part) and ear (part of a plant, e.g. of corn). Many or most spea …

One of the Proto-Indo-European words for "son" appears to have been *suHnús (Skt. sūnú-, Goth. sunus, etc.). The word for "daughter-in-law" is reconstructed as *snusós (Lat. nurus, Gk. νυός, etc.). Co …

To answer your first question, the page you cite is confusing cognacy with derivation. Latin spondeō and Greek σπένδω come from the same Proto-Indo-European root, but I see no particular reason to thi …

They are indeed both from the same PIE root, which however is reconstructed with a laryngeal, *semH-. PGmc *sama- "same" is a thematic derivative from the o-grade of this root, *somH-o-, found in man …

Such an etymology for niger has in fact been suggested by Frisk, specifically from *negʷ-ró- (with the common adjectival suffix *-ró-); cf. Arm. nerk "color". … The only formal difficulty with this etymology is the vowel change: though there are sporadic cases of *e > i in Latin, it doesn't seem to have been a regular change. …

But if you're looking for the etymology of the name of a mythological figure, or an island, or a town, with those dictionaries you're usually out of luck. …

The etymology of Greek kubos is unknown, but it is thought to be a loanword. …

Chantraine says "no etymology, probably pre-Greek", but the name looks like a well-formed Greek prepositional compound: en-ualios would be "the one in the hualos". … Are there any good theories out there about the etymology of this name? …

Many Latin and Greek words can be traced back to PIE, though others cannot (sometimes because they're borrowings from other languages, sometimes because their etymology is unknown). …

To answer your second question first -- yes, in the combination γγ the first gamma is always pronounced as a nasal, e.g. ἄγγελος angelos (not aggelos). To the question in your title, no, there is no …

There's no reason to think that יהוה is an acronym (or a portmanteau, though that part of the question isn't clear to me), given that (1) his name presumably predates the Semitic alphabet, (2) it cert …

This isn't an example of antonymy, but of accidental similarity. The Latin prefix sub- could be assimilated into sur- before an r. This is not the same as French sur 'over', which is from Latin super. …