Yeah, it's not a clean inheritance but lots of linguistic contact and negotiation. And crucially it's not just other IE-adjacent languages but the Pre-IE subst

Yeah, it's not a clean inheritance but lots of linguistic contact and negotiation. And crucially it's not just other IE-adjacent languages but the Pre-IE substrate. So many Greek words are inherited from the mysterious languages that were there before, of which we only know through the marks they left on ours. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_a_Pre-Greek_substrate https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_derive...