With the aid of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which contains 46 pages of Indo-Eurpoean roots, one can discover that words that appear to be completely unrelated are in reality cognates. This information can be used to develop riddles that contain two or more such words. The point of an etymology riddle is that the cognate words share a common semantic element that is not readily apparent because some of the semantic and/or phonological changes that have occurred over the centuries have masked the common origin of the cognates
A work which likely elucidates a number of obscure words found in Ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, Sa...
This article investigates the problem of the lexeme for ‘apple’ in the reconstructed Indo-European f...
During the last decades a big gap has opened between onomastics on the one side and Indo-European li...
The field of studies related to cognitive linguistics is widely investigated in literature. However,...
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A work which presents many new and important and very likely correct etymologies, and so likely eluc...
The linguistic legitimation of the pre-Indo-Iranian substratum's existence, recognizable in the undo...
Universal Concepts List (100-words, Swadesh 1971=final) with supposed Proto-Indo-European cognate s...
Key words: etymology, vocabulary, learning, borrowings, students ABSTRACT Nowadays English is the ...
A work which likely elucidates a number of obscure words found in Ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, Sa...
This article investigates the problem of the lexeme for ‘apple’ in the reconstructed Indo-European f...
During the last decades a big gap has opened between onomastics on the one side and Indo-European li...
The field of studies related to cognitive linguistics is widely investigated in literature. However,...
THere are two ways to try this little teaser: either match the definitions in the left-hand (numbere...
If we hope to be good at English, we must learn En-glish vocabulary. Usually, when we study English ...
We present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing t...
The decisive clue for an etymology is often found by chance. This paper presents four cases which co...
Different world languages have a lot of contact with each other and have had different influences on...
Molecular geneticists propose that all living human beings are descendants of a single woman who liv...
Sometimes, though we scarcely ever notice it, words give clear evidence of where they came from: arr...
A work which presents many new and important and very likely correct etymologies, and so likely eluc...
The linguistic legitimation of the pre-Indo-Iranian substratum's existence, recognizable in the undo...
Universal Concepts List (100-words, Swadesh 1971=final) with supposed Proto-Indo-European cognate s...
Key words: etymology, vocabulary, learning, borrowings, students ABSTRACT Nowadays English is the ...
A work which likely elucidates a number of obscure words found in Ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, Sa...
This article investigates the problem of the lexeme for ‘apple’ in the reconstructed Indo-European f...
During the last decades a big gap has opened between onomastics on the one side and Indo-European li...