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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

   Full Text

   • Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- to fill, full, numerous

     • Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ti

       • 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 imperfective

       • Hellenic

         • Classical Greek …

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3. Word Family - Seven

   July theme: Miscellaneous 🔨

   Introduction

   For 2017-07-07, I just had to do "seven".

   It may seems strange to see the word for "seven" borrowed around between so many different language families, when the numbers 1-10 are so highly conserved in descendants of (post-Anatolian) Proto-Indo-European. But 10-based number systems seem to not …

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4. Word Family - Liberty

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   Introduction

   It is the right and proper state of a people or nation to be free, generous, honorable, hairy, libertine, and liberal children and vegetables.

   Teaser

   liberty, deliver, Loðbrok, Luther

   Full Text

   • Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- growth, people

     • Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeti primary verb

       • Germanic *leudaną to sprout, to grow

         • East Germanic …

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