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1. Word Family - Weasel

   January theme: 98 … 99 … 100! 💯

   Introduction

   This is 98th Word Family in 98 weeks. As I close in on 100, I'm doing two families inspired by comments on the very first family. In this case, the comment "I found recently that the words bison and weasel come from the same …

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2. Word Family - Celts

   June theme: Celtic Iron Age

   Introduction

   June's theme is linguistic influence early Iron Age Celtic. The rest of the month will focus on words that were borrowed from Gaulish into Latin (more things like the aside in today's families that the very iconic Latin word gladius being borrowed from Gaulish …

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3. Word Family - Mother

   May theme: Kinship Terms 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧

   Teaser

   mother, material, Manchester, mammal

   Full Text

   • Proto-World? *ma

     • Bantu *mààmá mother

       • Swahili mama mother
       • Zulu úm̤áma my mother
     • Basque ama mother, origin
     • Mon-Khmer *meeʔ mother

       • Khmer ម៉ែ mae mother
       • Vietnamese mẹ mother
     • Old Japanese 母 omo mother

       • Japanese 母 / あも amo mother (archaic …

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