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The English sibling is ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European *s(w)e-bh(o), an enlargement of the root *swe- "self" and is related to the second element in the English word gossip. Slavic la …

There is a Facebook group Linguistic Coincidences & Curiosities the members of which have been collecting such false cognates for years already. My favourites are the Latin and Malaysian "dua" which m …

The explanation is rather simple. The suffix -ly (2) is derived from the Proto-Germanic suffix *-līkaz originally with the sense of 'having the body or form of', related to the Proto-Germanic noun * …

Note: the Wikipedia article on the Belarusian Arabic alphabet is rather sketchy, the book the OP gives a link to is really a fundamental research of Kitabs (in Russian). The orthography in the Kitabs …

It is natural for a language that has the Dative case to use this case after verbs that have their action addressed for / to[wards] somebody or something, like “to help” and “to give”. In Russian, the …

That's an extremely interesting question. The nature of the Turkic verb (not only Turkish) and, more generally, the nature of the Turkic predicativity poses really many conceptual questions. Since the …

In Middle English it was /u/ — en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comen#Middle_English. The letter o is written there for practical reasons: near m, n, w, v made up of vertical strokes the letter u also made up o …

Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic languages are called satem languages, because in them the Proto-Indo-European palatovelars *ḱ, *ǵ, and *ǵʰ developed into sibilants or affricats, usually into [s]/[z]- or …

Ancient Greek word ΣΑΣΤΗΡ (sastēr) From 1890 to 1899, in pieces, a white marble slab was found by archaeologists in the ruins of an Ancient Greek colony Chersonesus, Greek Χερσόνησος (Khersónēsos), on …

Usually there are marks, but in casual and unofficial texts they are often absent. The oldest lengthy Old Phoenician text, on king Ahiram's sarcophagus, c. 850 BC, has its words divided with a short v …

They were standardized at some point, in the 19th-20th centuries, but many languages still keep their own ancient punctuation, e.g. the Armenian period is :, the Armenian question mark is ՞ which is p …

In fact, alif ا does not mean anything particular and that differs it from the rest of the Arabic letters. It is a kind of a service letter, now it is a support for hamza, now it is written as a horiz …

A good argument for determiners being silent can be this: names of different kinds of trees and names of wooden things were preceded by the determiner G̃IŠ (tree, wood, tool), for example: G̃IŠ.nàd, …

There are many excellent books on the Turkic Runic script in Russian.For example: The two fundamental books by Sergey Malov (1880–1957), a great Russian Turkologist, a brilliant expert on Turkic Runes …

In Proto-Germanic (PG) the prototypes of all the four words had the diphthong /au/ in the root: rot < PG *raudaz tot < PG *daudaz kaufen < OHG noun koufo (“merchant”) < Latin caupō (“tra …