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  1. Word Family - Year

    Introduction

    The PIE word *yóh₁r̥: "year" becomes both the native English "year" and also the Latinate "hour". Fascinatingly, Greek ὥρᾱ hṓrā (whence the Latin) is also borrowed, post-Alexander, into Classical Sanskrit along with the Hellenistic-Babylonian astronomy/astrology, eventually giving such descendants as Thai โหร hǒon: "astrologer, prophet, magician"!

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  2. Word Family - Fee

    Teaser

    fee, feudal, cyclops, peculiar, fight, Shadowfax

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    • Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- wool, livestock, wealth
      • Proto-Indo-European *péḱu
        • Old Armenian ասու asu fleece, wool
          • Armenian ասր asr fine fleece
        • Balto-Slavic *péku
          • East Baltic
            • Lithuanian pẽkus
          • West Baltic
            • Old Prussian pecku cattle
        • Germanic *fehu wealth, cattle, the rune ᚠ
          • East Germanic
            • Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 …
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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 ); Latin d corresponds to Germanic t …

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  4. Word Family - Equus

    March theme: March of Horses 🐎

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    hippopotamus, equestrian, zebra, alfalfa, Azores

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    • Early Proto-Indo-European
      • Proto-Indo-European *h₁eḱ- swift, fast
        • Proto-Indo-European *Heḱu-péth₂r̥ swift-winged?, sharp-winged?, hawk
          • Balto-Slavic
            • Slavic *àstrę̄bъ hawk
              • East Slavic ꙗстрѧбъ jastrębŭ
                • Russian ястреб jastreb hawk
              • South Slavic
                • Serbo-Croatian јастреб / јастријеб / jastreb / jastrijeb hawk
              • West Slavic
                • Czech jestřáb hawk …
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