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[German] Derivatives of fangen

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anfangen - separable prefix - to start, begin, do

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[Xenolinguistics] The Expanse: Lang Belta

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Mouth

Werdhom word conservation score = ★★★ English: a mouth, the mouth Dutch: een mond, de mond German: ein Mund, der Mund Danish: en mund, munden Norwegian: en munn, munnen Swedish: en mun, munnen Icelandic: munnur, munnurinn Proto-Germanic : munþaz French: une bouche, la bouche Spanish: una boca, la boca Portuguese: uma boca, a boca Italian: una bocca, la bocca Latin: bucca, buccae Note: the underlined languages have been reconstructed by academics, as there is no archaeological record of the language at that time.

Where words came from: caution, show, show, scavenge, sheen

It all started with the verb of perceiving: [Proto-indo-european] (s)kewh₁- : to perceive/observe From this we developed words describing an intention to perceive: [Italic] *kawēō : (verb) to beware [Latin] caveo : (verb) I beware [Old French] caution : security [English] caution : (noun) An attention to the probable effects of an act, in order to avoid harm In the East it developed into general sensory words: [Balto-Slavic] [Slavic] *čuti [West Slavic] [Russian] чу́ять (čújatʹ) : (verb) to smell, feel, sense [East Slavic] [Polish] czuć : (verb) to feel In Western europe the words had a tendency to relate to vision: [Germanic] [Proto-Germanic] *skawwōną : (verb) to watch [Old English] scēawian : (verb) to look at, to examine [English] show : (verb) to display [Old English] scēawung : (noun) examination [Englis...

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[German] Derivatives of fangen

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