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@cazabon 'Albeit' has parallells in other languages, but it wasn't created before English. For example, Dutch has 'zij het', literally \"be it\", and 'al is het', literally \"even though it is\".

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@sjaakkeuvelaar Exactly. However, it turns out that the fact that Dutch calls it 'straat' is due to confusion with the original word 'straat'. Originally, Dutch used the French word that English borrowed as 'strait'.

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@macumbamacaca 'Bestraten' is later van 'straat' afgeleid: \"tot straat maken\".

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@jankatins 'Puddle' is unrelated. ^^ The sounds are incompatible, unlike their similarity.

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2/

How can you identify early loanwords from Latin? By analysing three aspects: stress shift, vowel reduction and certain preserved consonants. My short Patreon article (750 words, tier 1) tells you all about it:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-latin-159099621

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Words such as 'museum', 'formula' and 'ratio' instantly give away their Latin origin, but did you know 'wall', 'street', and 'kitchen' come from Latin too?

They were borrowed during the Roman occupation of the part of Europe where Proto-West Germanic was spoken, the ancestor of English and its West Germanic sister languages.

Today’s infographic about construction terms shows six of these early borrowings and their descendants in English, Dutch, and German. Next time: food words.

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@pascaline Als je met dat woord op 'daten' doelt, is het natuurlijk 'daterijp'. Als je niet rijp bent voor de insectenspray van 'Deet', is het 'Deetrijp'. :)

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@ancientsounds Thank you so much! ^^

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@ancientsounds Hahaha, exactly! Haplogy for the win.

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@EF May it be of solace that that's only human. 😊

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@anne_twain I think many people are done with many English spellings. 😄

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@Sfwmson Who's BAB lee?

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@headword Nice one!

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@das_g It can technically happen with both stressed and unstressed syllables, although in 'probility' it would be unstressed 'ba' that would be dropped.

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@noisytoot That's a different change: the r was elided because it didn't go well with the y sound that the u makes.

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@groxx @epicdemiologist It's certainly an example of an actual linguistic process: metathesis. Here are some more examples:

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@jargoggles I love your comment and I'm going to save it. 😁

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@PKYo That'd be another case of syncope. 😊

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@PKYo That's syncope. 😊 'Potato' undergoing haplology would produce something like *pato.

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Haplology is a so-called sporadic sound change. In the short article on my Patreon (470 words, tier 1), you'll learn all about the difference between sporadic sound changes such as haplology, and regular sound changes.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/probly-haplogy-158495711

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‘Probably’ is often pronounced /probly/. The syllable ‘ba’ is deleted because it’s followed by another syllable starting with a b. This is called haplology – or haplogy if you will.

Some people have an issue with /probly/, but what they don’t know is that their beloved form ‘probably’ is the result of haplology too: in Middle English, it was ‘probablely’.

Haplology can be found in all ages and places. My new infographic shows cases from English, Latin, French, Greek, German, and Portuguese.

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@sjaakkeuvelaar Voor niet-geboren-maar-wel-echte-Brabanders als jij zal het extra herkenbaar zijn. 😊

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3/ ... leer je elke pagina boeiende en verrassende feiten over veranderende taal in Brabant - en bovenal over taal als iets van ons allemaal.

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2/ ... te laten horen waar ze zich thuis voelen.

'Superbrabants' laat zien hoe belangrijk taal is voor het vormen en uiten van je identiteit, aan de hand van alledaagse voorbeelden: van New Kids, Snollebollekes en Undercover tot PSV-marketing, cabaretiers en internetmemes.

Kristel is niet alleen een deskundig onderzoekster maar ook een bedreven vertelster. Je vliegt door 'Superbrabants' heen alsof je aan een bakske koffie zit met een vriendin. Ondertussen ... 2/

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Gisteravond presenteerde Kristel Doreleijers haar boek 'Superbrabants'. Ik was erbij. Van tevoren had ik het boek al mogen lezen – met heel veel plezier!

Het Brabants dreigt te verdwijnen, net als veel andere lokale talen. Steeds minder jongeren groeien ermee op, maar toch willen ze Brabants klinken. Met het overdreven hyperdialect waar ze soms mee aankomen, zijn oudere dialectsprekers niet altijd blij, maar voor de jongeren is het een manier om ... 1/

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@nojhan I'm afraid I don't understand your question. I export them as a png file in Microsoft PowerPoint.

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@JensJot It was invented as a Latin word, but indeed, the components stem from Greek.

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@onepict Yes, it's a sister word of 'quean' (included in the graphic). 😊

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The word ‘queen’ is distantly related to the first part of ‘gynaecology’ and the second part of ‘misogyny’.

It’s also related to Norwegian ‘kone’ (wife) and ‘kvinne’ (woman), but they’re not full cognates.

While ‘queen’ comes from Proto-Germanic *kwēniz (wife), ‘kone’ and ‘kvinne’ stem from *kwenōn (woman). In English, this became the disparaging – and now archaic – word ‘quean’ (ho).

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The word ‘dame’ is part of a huge word family.

It contains the same root as ‘damsel’, ‘domain’, ‘to dominate’, ‘danger’, ‘dome’, and ‘despot’.

In the Romance languages, it’s related to Spanish ‘don’ (Mr.), French ‘dimanche’ (Sunday), and Italian ‘duomo’ (cathedral).

All of these words were built on the foundations of a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “house”.

Click my new infographic to learn more:

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The word ‘king’ has a fascinating story to tell.

Its Proto-Germanic ancestor *kuningaz was derived from the word *kunjan, which became English ‘kin’. A king was a descendant of royal or divine kin.

The word *kunjan, in turn, stemmed from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to produce”. This root, through Latin and Greek, gave us many words, including ‘genre’, ‘nature’, ‘genital’, ‘genesis’, ‘pregnant’, and ‘gonorrhea’.

Zoom in on my new graphic to learn more:

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Voor een tekstje voor kinderen in groep 3 zat ik te worstelen met eenlettergrepige woorden met een f.

Ik vermijd LLM's als de pest, maar ik dacht: ach, laat ik toch maar eens de AI-modus van Google proberen.

Die begon te hallucineren als een papegaai aan de tramadol.

Ziehier:

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116453756965240051","date_published":"2026-04-23T11:21:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-23 11:21","date_timestamp":1776943313,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88799357","content_html":"

The English word ‘fabric’ is a notorious false friend of Spanish ‘fábrica’: a fabric is a material, while a fábrica is a factory.

However, these words are real cognates: they stem from the same Latin word: ‘fabrica’.

This Latin word even produced ‘forge’.

Click to learn all about these words. For those interested in how ‘fabrica’ could ever evolve into words such as ‘forge’, I described the sound changes step by step.

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The Old English word for a flower was ‘blōsma’.

While this word survived, becoming modern ‘blossom’, it gave up part of its meaning to a French loanword. Interestingly though, this loanword, spelled both ‘flour’ and ‘flower’ in Middle English, stems from the same root as ‘blossom’.

Moreover, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the spelling variants ‘flour’ and ‘flower’ were differentiated. Each was assigned one of the meanings: “finest part of ground grain” versus “blossom of a plant”.

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Dubbel goed nieuws! 🥳 Vandaag heb ik twee boekcontracten getekend bij Ambo/Anthos - een daarvan met Frans van der Vleuten als schrijfcompagnon.

Dit najaar verschijnt er een soloboek van mij vol met wetenswaardigheden over winterse woorden. Wist je bijvoorbeeld dat ons Nederlandse woord 'schaats' uit Noord-Frankrijk komt, dat 'rendier' niks met 'rennen' te maken heeft en dat ... 1/

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116415566075659354","date_published":"2026-04-16T17:29:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 17:29","date_timestamp":1776360566,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87994709","content_html":"

It will come as no surprise that ‘to live’ is etymologically related to ‘life’ and ‘alive’.

However, these words are also related to ‘to leave’ and German ‘bleiben’ (“to stay”), which used to have an English cognate: ‘to belive’.

Even ‘lipo-’ in ‘liposuction’ is related, as are the parts ‘-lev-’ and ‘-lv-’ of the numerals ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’.

All of these words stem from a common Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to stick”.

Click my new graphic to learn all about this word family:

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Eggs are oval. The word ‘egg’ is even etymologically related to ‘oval’.

‘Oval’ comes from Latin ‘ōvālis’ (egg-shaped), a derivative of ‘ōvum’ (egg), the ancestor of Spanish ‘huevo’, French ‘œuf’ and others.

Latin ‘ōvum’, in turn, was a distant cousin of Germanic *ajjan, the ancestor of Old Norse ‘egg’. This word was borrowed into Middle English and gradually displaced the native word ‘ey’.

Click my new infographic graphic to learn more.

See post 2 for an anecdote on ‘eggs’ and ‘eyren’.

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The geat were eating nit under the each.

‘Geat’, ‘nit’, ‘each’– this is what the original plural forms of ‘goat’, ‘nut’, and ‘oak’ would’ve looked like if they hadn’t been replaced by ‘goats’, ‘nuts’, and ‘oaks’.

How did plurals with a vowel alternation came to be, such as ‘man ~ men’ and ‘mouse ~ mice’?

What would the lost ones have sounded like if they’d been preserved?

My short video will tell you:
https://youtube.com/shorts/CTjYP8skREc

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Waarom heeft 'zoeken' de vreemde verleden tijd 'zocht'?

Je ontdekt het in mijn nieuwe artikel - met uitstapjes naar het Engels, Duits, Brabants, Limburgs en Nedersaksisch.

Tussendoor kun je luisteren naar de gereconstrueerde uitspraak van historische woorden.

https://taalaandewandel.com/2026/03/29/zoeken-zocht-to-search/

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Despite their similar meaning and appearance, the verbs ‘to search’ and ‘to seek’ don’t have any etymological relationship whatsoever.

‘To seek’ comes straight from the Proto-Germanic ancestor of English, while ‘to search’ was borrowed from a French word related to ‘circle’. Searching is going around looking for something.

Click my new infographic to learn all about these word families.

‘To seek’ has the highly irregular past tense ‘sought’. Why does the k become a silent gh? And why ... 1/

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The words ‘power’, ‘host’, ‘potential’, ‘impotent’, ‘possible’, ‘posse’, and ‘to possess’ all contain the same Proto-Indo-European word: *pótis, meaning “master”.

Click my new graphic to learn how they evolved through derivatives in Latin, sound changes in Romance, and borrowings into English:

The Indo-European word *pótis (“master”) also became Lithuanian ‘pàts’ (“husband”), Ancient Greek ‘pósis’ (“husband”), and Sanskrit ‘páti’ (“husband; master; lord”).

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Zojuist besefte ik dat 'zandwijk' de letterlijke Nederlandse tegenhanger is van 'sandwich'.

'Zandwijkspreid' klinkt toch een stuk confronterender dan 'sandwich spread'.

Eentje in de categorie 'Giuseppe Verdi = Joop Groenen'.

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Zondagmiddag vertellen Kristel Doreleijers en ik over de taal van verschillende generaties.

Zoals je van mij gewend bent, neem ik je mee in ons verre taalverleden - 50 tot 150 generaties terug.

Ik laat zien dat taal altijd verandert, maar niet verloedert.

22 maart van 13.30 uur tot 15.30 uur
Huis van het Boek, Prinsessegracht 30- 31, 2514 AP Den Haag

€ 7,50 voor leden van Onze Taal en vrienden van Huis van het Boek;
€ 10,- voor andere geïnteresseerden

Kaartverkoop:
https://onzetaalwebwinkel.nl/diversen/ticket-de-taal-van-mijn-generatie

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RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116144270452431661

Je kunt nog tot zondagavond op mijn boek stemmen (en andere projecten 😉) voor de Language Industry Awards! 😋

Hieronder vind je de link:

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Na de twee prijsnominaties van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' maakt nu mijn boek 'Woord voor woord: de verleden tijd van taal' kans op een prijs. Het is genomineerd voor de Language Industry Awards van De Taalsector én op de shortlist gezet!

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Wil je dat ik win in de categorie 'beste boek', dan kun je me helpen: stem t/m 22 maart via de link hieronder. Daar lees je ook alles over 'Woord voor woord' en zijn conculega's:
https://www.languageindustryawards.eu/nominaties-2024-25/

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116262740067545495","date_published":"2026-03-20T17:43:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-20 17:43","date_timestamp":1774028626,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86552812","content_html":"

The English word ‘rich’ is related to ‘regal’ and ‘royal’.

‘Rich’ derives from a Proto-Germanic borrowing of *rīxs, the Proto-Celtic cognate of Latin ‘rēx’, meaning “king”.

The meaning “wealthy” evolved from “powerful; kingly”.

Latin ‘rēx’, in turn, is the ancestor of Spanish ‘rey’ and French ‘roi’. Via French, ‘regal’ and ‘royal’ come from ‘rēgālis’, a derivative of ‘rēx’.

Click my new infographic to learn more about this fascinating word family:

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Vrijdag om 13.00 uur geef ik bij Bibliotheek Rijswijk een quiz-lezing over mijn boek 'Woord voor woord: de verleden tijd van taal'.

Ik neem je mee in de bijzondere herkomst van alledaagse woorden.

Win je de quiz, dan ga je naar huis met het boek!

https://bibliotheekaandevliet.op-shop.nl/210/lezing-quiz-de-verleden-tijd-van-taal

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116249322045927859","date_published":"2026-03-18T08:51:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-18 08:51","date_timestamp":1773823883,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86209155","content_html":"

The origin of the word ‘iron’ is shrouded in mystery.

It comes from a Proto-Germanic word that was most probably borrowed from Proto-Celtic *īsarnom, the ancestor of Irish ‘iarann’. The Celts were skilful metal workers during the Iron Age.

However, tracing *īsarnom further back has proven to be hard.

My new graphic shows four hypotheses, as well as the many descendants of *īsarnom in Celtic and Germanic:

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116229070930493192","date_published":"2026-03-14T19:01:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-14 19:01","date_timestamp":1773514876,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85918429","content_html":"

Despite its looks, the English word ‘heart’ is etymologically related to ‘cardio’, ‘cordial’, ‘to record’, ‘courage’, and even Spanish ‘corazón’.

Through Germanic, Greek, and Latin, these words all derive from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “heart”.

In Germanic, sound changes that are called Grimm’s Law radically changed its consonants.

Click my new infographic to learn how:

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116206445033178811","date_published":"2026-03-10T19:07:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 19:07","date_timestamp":1773169632,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85511242","content_html":"

The numbers ‘twenty’ to ‘ninety’ end in ‘-ty’.
Where does this part come from?

While it’s now a suffix, ‘-ty’ stems from a Proto-Germanic noun meaning “decade, a (group of) ten”.

For example, ‘forty’ comes from *fedwōr tegiwiz, literally “four tens”.

Only Icelandic, Swedish, and Elfdalian have preserved this word as a noun.

Click my new graphic to learn all about ‘-ty’ and its relatives:

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","summary":"","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/116172811914482605","date_published":"2026-03-04T20:33:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Yoïn van Spijk","url":"https://toot.community/@yvanspijk","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.toot.community%2Faccounts%2Favatars%2F109%2F364%2F817%2F764%2F036%2F126%2Foriginal%2F592d8f8750770dc0.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yvanspijk@toot.community"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-04 20:33","date_timestamp":1772656431,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85289834","content_html":"

The English verb ‘to see’ is very distantly related to the verb ‘to sue’ – and also to ‘sight’, ‘second’ and ‘sequence’.

Via Germanic and Latin, they all come from a Proto-Indo-European root whose meaning can be reconstructed as “to follow”.

In Germanic, this meaning shifted to “to follow with the eyes”.

Click my new graphic to learn more.

As the graphic shows, the Proto-Indo-European root that’s at the basis of these words is *sekʷ- (“to follow”). Through derivatives of its Latin ... 1/

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