Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)

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• satvikpendem 28 minutes ago
  A good book on this is Proto by Laura Spinney, it covers all the branches of Proto-Indo-European and also postulates that the entire family may have started from as few as a hundred speakers who were steppe nomads, which is mindboggling if true.
• hiccuphippo 45 minutes ago
  And then Hello became Allo in French and Alo in Spanish, which is only used as a greeting over the phone and never as a general greeting.
• adzm 58 minutes ago
  I'm never going to look at a <div> the same
• allgirl 1 hour ago
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