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However, Latin quattuor and english four are related through the PIE word kʷetwóres, as basically all words for 4 in indoeuropean languages are
by cenamus 2y ago
However, Latin quattuor and english four are related through the PIE word kʷetwóres, as basically all words for 4 in indoeuropean languages are
- yard2010 2y agoIn my humble linguistics experience where there's smoke there's fire - many new languages words that sound similar may have and common abstract ancestor in one of the old proto languages
- shkkmo 2y agoYet 'consume' and 'consummate' have entirely separate origins so it isn't always a safe assumption.