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Not so intriguing i think, ratas also means Wheel in Finnish which matches at least the authors first name. For reference: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ratas
by sharken 10y ago
Not so intriguing i think, ratas also means Wheel in Finnish which matches at least the authors first name.
For reference: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ratas https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ratas
- Sharlin 10y agoIndeed. Interesting it's from PIE via Lithuanian - I hadn't thought about it before but it is cognate with English rota, rotate via Latin.
- pisipisipisi 10y agoAnd Estonian..
- jacobush 10y agoRatt is steering wheel in Swedish. Bet its PIE.
- rimantas 10y agoTIL. I had no idea, Lithuanina and Finnish being in different language groups that we can have same words :)