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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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Does "and" come from the PIE word for "and"?
Is "and" a recent word?: No; it's been used for at least 2,000 years. The same word occurs in other Germanic languages such as German 'und'. It is a variant of teh word 'end' which has a good I-E hist …
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Have linguistics found any evidence that Semitic languages influenced Germanic languages or ...
No - however that doesn't mean semitic words which described man-made goods did not enter the Proto-germanic wordstore when that good was traded - words such as this are known as 'Wanderwörter' or 'wa …
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Can these new etymological pairs of PIE roots be true?
Possibly but we're delving here into the language that went before proto-Indo-European.
The alternations are ones found in other languages. For example the l/n alternation is found in Ancient Egyptian …
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(PIE) déḱm̥ vs déḱm̥t (ten)
It depends if you're ready to believe it means 'two hands' in which case the 't' is the last letter of the root of *komtos > PG *xamðaz > NE 'hand'.
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Verner's Law and 'ge-'
Verner's Law says that voiceless fricatives, when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing.
The Germanic prefix 'ge-' as in German 'genug' or English 'enough' i …
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PIE root streig- : How to reconcile 'To stroke, rub, press'?
Definition 3 is surely a recent secondary development in English (and it is an English English definition - pace curiousdanii) used in TV football commentaries.
To me 'rubbing' is 'soft stroking' and …
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How do we get "four" when it doesn't follow Grimm's law?
Frederik Kortlandt in Labials, velars and labiovelars in Germanic. North-Western European Language Evolution 30 (1997), 45-50. addresses how in many cases PIE *kw > p > Germanic f in words such as ' …
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