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The relationship between "orange" the colour and "orange" the fruit

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How did the Latin ''putare' evolve into all these different meanings?

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How can a speaker tell whether their idiolect has "dark l"?

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Are there minimal pairs for "l" vs "ll" in Albanian?

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Is etymology considered part of linguistics or a separate field outside the scope of linguistics?

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Etymology of 'but', from West Germanic to Old English

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How does the prefix 'entre' in French's 'entreprendre' compare with the prefix 'under-' in English's 'undertake'?

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Which kinds of participle does Albanian have?

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How did the PIE root *per- (forward, through) evolve into 'para-', to mean 'contrary to'?

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Is there a unicode for words?

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Interrogatives and Copulas in Malay

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'stipend' : How did 'a tree trunk' evolve to mean 'payment, gift'?

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Why does "before" mean both "in front of" and "prior to"?

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