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Avestan yātu-, Middle Persian jādūg, New Persian jādū all mean “sorcerer”, though the NP word is also used for “sorcery” (MP. jādūgīh). This Iranian yātu- is cognate with Skt. yātu-.

It is not rare for the same Latin word to be used both for a genus and a species of the same genus. For example, canis canis, or the examples cited by Yellow Sky. A more mainstream laryngealist recon …

Declinatio is a technical term in Latin grammar, which has been adopted into English. Its technical use is described as follows in Lewis and Short: “Of gramm. lang.: variation, inflection. (α). In …

This is not the only example of the linguistic phenomenon whereby language A qualifies some object as B, while language B qualifies the same object as A. English uses “French letters” for “condoms”, w …

As you say, “Cartesian” is from the Latinised form of the family name “Descartes”. This derives from the one-time place name “Les Cartes”. So “Descartes” means “from (the place called) Les Cartes”. Ho …

The answer is no. Hindi muskān cannot derive from the Sanskrit root SMI; the vowels do not match. Turner derives it from a hypothetical ancestor *muss. https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/soas …

They are both loanwords (tatsama) from Sanskrit. https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/platts_query.py?qs=%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%DB%8C&searchhws=yes

Persian šōhar (šawhar) seems to imply Iranian *xšawdar-, and the parallel form šōy would be from the nominative *xšawdā, presumably an actor noun from the verbal stem *xšawd- “to wash, to become liqui …

Idus does not have a recognised Indo-European etymology. The concept of a “Nostratic” super-language is not mainstream linguistic doctrine. …

ἀριθμός and ῥυθμός both have the suffix -θμο-, otherwise they are not related. The mainstream view, as reflected now in Beekes’s Greek etymological dictionary, is that ἀριθμός is from IE *h2rei- ‘to …

Latin "certus" has both of these meanings, though your "Type B" is very much more common and is clearly the original sense (perfect passive participle of cerno "to determine"). A few examples of "Type …

The similarity is a coincidence. The book can definitely be closed.

Did you ever wonder whether it might be because the samovar is a Russian invention?

Latin Ioannes > Giovanni is the exact counterpart of Latin Genoa > Genova.

Meyer-Luebke, Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1911): digitus „Finger". Rum. deget, vegl. detco, ital. dito, log. didu, obwald. det, engad. daint, bergell. dant, friaul. det, frz. doigt, prov …