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  1. 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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  2. Word Family - Folk

    September theme: Community 🏘️

    Teaser

    complete, supply, full, poly-, folk, filbert

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    • Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- to fill, full, numerous
      • Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ti primary verb, root perfective
        • Hellenic
          • Classical Greek πλῆτο plêto
      • Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁st sigma perfective
        • Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥-pleh₁st "in-fill"
          • Indo-Iranian *HápraHt
            • Indo-Aryan
              • Sanskrit 𑀅𑀧𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀢𑁆 áprāt to fill
      • Proto-Indo-European *pípleh₁ti reduplicate …
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  3. 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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  4. Word Family - Easter

    Introduction

    The root *h₂ews-: "sunrise" may be connected to *h₂ew-: "away from, since, again" and *h₂ewg-: "to increase, to enlarge", compare for example *h₂éwgeh₂: "sunrise, dawn" (literally, "the increase") from *h₂ewg-.

    Teaser

    Eärendil, Easter, air, soar, east, Austria, Australia, early

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    • Pre-Proto-Indo-European *qʷ:eb-??
      • Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew away from, since …
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