For the first post, let's start with the title of the blog
[Proto-Indo-European]
*werdʰh₁om (word)It is probably related to:
*werh₁- (to speak)
It has evolved into the following words:
[Italic]
Latin: verbum (word, verb)This evolved into:
- English: verb, verbal
- French: la verve (eloquence), le verbe (speech, verb)
- Spanish: el verbo (verb)
- Italian: il verbo (verb)
- Portuguese: o verbo (verb)
- Swedish: ett verb (verb)
[Germanic]
Proto-Germanic: *wurdą (word)This evolved into:
- English: word
- Dutch: het woord (word)
- German: das Wort (word)
- Swedish: ett ord (word)
References:
- Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Wort”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, ISBN 3-11-006800-1
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*u̯erh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, ISBN 3-89500-219-4, pages 689-690
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008), “u̯er(ii̯e/a)-zi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-16092-7, pages 1159-1160
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