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1. Word Family - Cook

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   cook, cook, coach, quiche, cake, kitchen, culinary, abrecock, Pepsi-Cola, biscuit, Budapest

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   • Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- to cook, to ripen

     • Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti to ripen, to be cooking root imperfective

       • Pre-Albanian *peka

         • Albanian pjek bake, broil, roast
       • Balto-Slavic *pektei to bake

         • East Baltic *keptei metathesis

           • Latvian cept
           • Lithuanian kèpti
         • Slavic *peťì …

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2. Word Family - Wheel

   Introduction

   This is quite a large family with a number of borrowings into other language families. Because, it turns out, the Indo-European speakers' relationship with wheels is pretty important in a lot of people's history, like the Sumerians' relationship with reeds.

   There is also a root *wel(h₁)-: "to turn …

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3. Word Family - Stegosaurus

   April theme: Dinosaurs and Friends🦕

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   stegosaur, tile, thatch, thatch, deck, deck, toga, detective, thug

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   • Proto-Indo-European *steg- *teg- to cover

     • Proto-Indo-European *steg- *teg- pole, stick, beam ^[4]

       • Proto-Indo-European *stogeh₂

         • Germanic *stakô stake

           • East Germanic

             • Gothic *staka

               • Western Romance *staca stake

                 • Old French estache stake, strap
                 • Spanish estaca stake …

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4. Word Family - Sleep

   October theme: Nighttime 🌃

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   sleep, avalanche, avalanche, lip, lobe, lick, lichen

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     • Proto-Indo-European *sleh₂b- *leh₂b- to hang loosely, to be weak, lip, to lick

       • Proto-Indo-European *sleh₂beti *leh₂beti to fall down? to relax? primary verb

         • Germanic *slēpaną to sleep

           • East Germanic

             • Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐍀𐌰𐌽 slēpan to sleep
             • Crimean Gothic schlipen to …

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5. Word Family - Hall

   July theme: Architecture 🏛️

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   hall, cellar, eyelid, color, hell, apocalypse

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   • Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- to cover

     • Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-dʰh₁-? place under cover??

       • Proto-Indo-European *ḱeldʰh₁eti?

         • Germanic *haldaną to hold, to keep

           • East Germanic

             • Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌳𐌰𐌽 haldan to hold, to tend
           • North Germanic

             • Old Norse halda to hold

               • Danish holde to hold, to …

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