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The Long Linguistic Journey to ‘Dagnabbit’
- bitxbitxbitcoin 9y agoDagnabbit! I just went down the rabbit hole and read all of that.
- pimlottc 9y agoWikitionary has interesting entries for the Proto-Indo-European roots for bear[0] and wolf[1]: 0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%82%C5%95%CC%A5t%E1%B8%B1os https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... 1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/w%C4%BA%CC%A5k%CA%B7os https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...