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  1. Word Family - Justice

    Introduction

    June is for Justice. Justice is Life. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

    Teaser

    Ayurveda, hygiene, forever, not, age, eternal, medieval, young, June, jury, injury, prejudice, justice

    Full Text

    • Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey- life, age, vital, eternal
      • Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
        • Old Armenian այո ayo yes "on my life??"
          • Armenian այո ayo yes
        • Indo-Iranian *Hā́yu lifetime, life
          • Indo-Aryan …
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  2. Word Family - Bleak

    January theme: 98 … 99 … 100! 💯

    Teaser

    bleach, blank, black, blue, beluga, flame, Baltic, pool

    Full Text

    • Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- to shine
      • Proto-Indo-European *bʰoltós
        • Balto-Slavic
          • Baltic
            • East Baltic
              • Lithuanian báltas white
            • Latin Balthae
              • Medieval Latin Balticus
                • English Baltic
        • Illyrian *balta swamp
          • Albanian baltë mud
          • Balto-Slavic *balta
            • Latin Balthae
              • Medieval Latin Balticus
                • English …
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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 omo mother
        • Japanese / あも amo mother (archaic …
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  4. Word Family - Diurnal

    December theme: Religion 📿

    Introduction

    We start religion words with *dyḗwos ph₂tḗr, Old Father Shining-Sky himself.

    Interestingly English "day" is not from this root, despite similarity to many IE words for "day", e.g. Latin diēs, etc. Germanic *d corresponds to Latin f (PIE *dʰ); Latin d corresponds to Germanic *t …

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