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How do dictionaries source attestation?

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What is the "principle of uniformity" in historical linguistics?

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Is language "necessarily underspecified"?

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If *h1 were a glottal stop, and virtually all German word initial vowels have an implicit glottal stop

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European loans in Bantu

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Why "were" for subjunctive?

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Origin of "will" in Germanic, wouldn't it be subjunctive?

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What is Double Zero Grade?

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What is "sub-Indo-European"?

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Paradox of PIE nomenclature

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German contraction "wara" - morphology or phonology?

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phonetics name of vibration in the wind pipe [duplicate]

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The Metathesis in "scope" vs "to show"

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Isn't the supposed development in German "schön" > "schon" typologically unlikely

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Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online database (by Brill, Leiden University)

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Latin "niger" from *negʷ-?

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PIE Etymology of Ger heute "today" vs Lt hodie, Sanskr adja etc

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The letter V in German, its sounds and visual symbolism [closed]

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The "plague" and its transmission by "fleas", or "flies"

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31 Questions

How do dictionaries source attestation?

Statistical Methods in Etymology

What is "=" in transcriptions of Hittite

Why does Sankr. नक्ति (nákti) not show Satemization

Phonetic reconstruction of "Haremhab"

What is the "principle of uniformity" in historical linguistics?

If mora are potentially sufficient to describe language, then what do syllables add, in theory?

What's the name of the principle that derives the sound of a symbol from the name of the thing that that the symbol depicts?

Is English "<adjective> to <verb>" an idiomatic schema, or what do you call "easy to do"?

Reference Request: connection between PIE \leg- and \les

Is language "necessarily underspecified"?

If *h1 were a glottal stop, and virtually all German word initial vowels have an implicit glottal stop

European loans in Bantu

Why "were" for subjunctive?

Origin of "will" in Germanic, wouldn't it be subjunctive?

What is Double Zero Grade?

What is "sub-Indo-European"?

Paradox of PIE nomenclature

German contraction "wara" - morphology or phonology?

phonetics name of vibration in the wind pipe [duplicate]

The Metathesis in "scope" vs "to show"

Isn't the supposed development in German "schön" > "schon" typologically unlikely

Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online database (by Brill, Leiden University)

Latin "niger" from *negʷ-?

PIE Etymology of Ger heute "today" vs Lt hodie, Sanskr adja etc

The letter V in German, its sounds and visual symbolism [closed]

Do Polish 'rz' /ž š/ and rhotic English have something in common? [closed]

Is Influence of Substratum's phonology biological? [closed]

Diminutive bias from minority language code switching?

The "plague" and its transmission by "fleas", or "flies"