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Does the English "fist" relate to "five" and "fit"?

Forums: English, Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/26/19 12:43 AM

Replies: 3
Views: 571

Last Post by mark noble
on 05/27/19 10:59 AM

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The Old Slavonic "velie" and "vlad"

Forums: Etymology, Old Slavonic

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/27/19 9:51 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 993

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on 05/27/19 9:51 AM

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Does the Old Slavonic "petlya" relate to Turkish "fitil" and Arabic "fatīl" < "fatala"

Forums: Etymology, German, Arabic, Turkish

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/26/19 4:12 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 772

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/26/19 4:12 AM

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Does the Russian “krot” (mole) relate to “krater” (crater)?

Forums: Etymology, Greek, Russian

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/26/19 1:22 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,206

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/26/19 1:22 AM

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Does the Old Slavonic "pyast'" relate to "pyat" and "pietly"?

Forums: Etymology, Old Slavonic

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/26/19 12:45 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 970

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/26/19 12:45 AM

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Does the Old Slavonic word pyast' (metacarpus) relate to the petlya (coupling)

Forums: Etymology, Ancient Greek, Old Slavonic

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/25/19 5:09 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,151

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/25/19 5:09 PM

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Does the Ancient Greek word κρίκος (krikos) "loop" relate to the Old Slavonic kriuk "loop"?

Forums: Etymology, Ancient Greek, Old Slavonic

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/25/19 2:24 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,301

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/25/19 2:24 PM

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Does the Ancient Greek word κυλώ (to roll) relate to the κῠλίνδω (to roll)?

Forums: Etymology, Ancient Greek

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/25/19 1:58 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 824

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/25/19 1:58 PM

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Does the Ancient Greek word κυλώ (kilo) "to roll" relate to the коло (kolo) "wheel"?

Forums: Russian, Old Slavonic, Etymology, Ancient Greek

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/25/19 1:17 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,321

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/25/19 1:17 PM

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Does the German noun Blitz “Lightning” relate to the Russian verb blistat' "to shine"

Forums: Etymology, German, Russian

Question by HelloGuys
Posted 05/23/19 2:02 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 751

Last Post by mark noble
on 05/24/19 12:54 PM

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Does the German noun Ei [ai] "egg" relate to the Russian яйцо [iaitso] "egg"

Forums: Etymology, German, Russian, Old Slavonic

Question by HelloGuys
Posted 05/22/19 2:06 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,202

Last Post by HelloGuys
on 05/22/19 2:06 PM

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Does the German verb fi**en relate to the Fig Tree

Forums: Etymology

Question by HelloGuys
Posted 05/22/19 1:53 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 610

Last Post by HelloGuys
on 05/22/19 1:53 PM

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Do the English noun "time" correlate with the Old Slavonic verb "tomiti"

Forums: English, Etymology, Russian, Old Slavonic

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/19/19 2:11 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 1,164

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/19/19 2:11 AM

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The lexical root of the perfect tense forms differs from the lexical root of the infinitive form

Forums: Latin, Etymology

Question by InGodWeTrust
Posted 05/10/19 2:15 PM

Replies: 4
Views: 2,183

Last Post by Jewels Vern
on 05/12/19 6:10 PM

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Are the Latin verb “pugno” and the English verb “fight” cognates?

Forums: Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 6:45 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 453

Last Post by Jewels Vern
on 05/11/19 6:19 PM

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Are the words “negative”, “nego” and “niger”, “nox” cognates?

Forums: Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 6:54 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 416

Last Post by Jewels Vern
on 05/11/19 6:17 PM

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Relation between razor and riezati

Forums: Etymology

Question by InGodWeTrust
Posted 05/11/19 2:41 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 479

Last Post by Jewels Vern
on 05/11/19 6:03 PM

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Relation between genu and genomos

Forums: Etymology, Latin

Question by InGodWeTrust
Posted 05/11/19 5:07 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 2,074

Last Post by Jewels Vern
on 05/11/19 5:35 PM

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Relation between knee and knight

Forums: English, Etymology, German

Question by InGodWeTrust
Posted 05/11/19 4:07 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 652

Last Post by InGodWeTrust
on 05/11/19 4:07 AM

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Relation between perfect suffix -()vī and vir

Forums: Latin, Etymology

Question by InGodWeTrust
Posted 05/10/19 2:45 PM

Replies: 1
Views: 1,998

Last Post by fresco
on 05/11/19 12:23 AM

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The lexical root of the perfect tense forms differs from the lexical root of the infinitive form

Forums: Latin, Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 5:54 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 1,959

Last Post by George
on 05/10/19 11:55 AM

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Could the Latin word lingua be derived from “linia” plus “qua” (how)

Forums: Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 6:58 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 450

Last Post by mark noble
on 05/10/19 7:05 AM

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Does the Latin have any other nouns, which decline only in one case?

Forums: Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 6:56 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 436

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/10/19 6:56 AM

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Do the Latin words rēs/rēx have the “speech” meaning?

Forums: Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 6:53 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 429

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/10/19 6:53 AM

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Do the Latin have the cognate verb/noun for words maximus, magnus?

Forums: Etymology

Question by NickTheodorov
Posted 05/10/19 6:49 AM

Replies: 0
Views: 467

Last Post by NickTheodorov
on 05/10/19 6:49 AM

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