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Why can "autarchy" be spelled with an "k" while other words not?
Jun 22, 2017
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Are there languages in which "coffee" is not a cognate of a root containing k/q and f/h/w?
Sep 10, 2016
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Why is it called proto-Germanic?
Oct 5, 2021
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Why was the name תאומא transliterated as Θωμᾶς (Thomas) rather than Τωμᾶς (Tomas)?
Apr 12, 2015
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Ei (egg in German) and eye; Auge (eye in German) and egg
Nov 16, 2014
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Are Semitic and Indo-European languages at all related?
Jan 12, 2017
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Do any languages use {woman} as the root for human?
Nov 16, 2016
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Why is the word "war" in Romance languages predominantly of Germanic origin instead of Latin?
May 18, 2021
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Are there any scripts which have more than 127 characters?
Feb 7, 2018
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Languages with a three-way distinction between voiced, aspirated, and unaspirated stops
Feb 14, 2014
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Was hay invented only in the Middle Ages in Europe?
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Is there a name for a window without glass?
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How serious was Fermat's statement about the ancients?
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Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
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German equivalents to the prefix "re"?

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