To find out more cognates and some of the history of how those words evolved, I recommend the History of English podcast. You’ll get language history and etymol

To find out more cognates and some of the history of how those words evolved, I recommend the History of English podcast. You’ll get language history and etymology as well as lots of social and historical drivers for those changes. From this, I learned that “white” and “black” are cognate with an IE root that meant both burning and burned. https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/