Languages are bananas
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Now that this is blowing up, I should probably note that it was inspired by pointing out the text/tissue/tech/dachshund example over on Mastodon
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To speak, to be born, to move in a straight line, to cover
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To sieve, to rotate, a body, to turn
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Old French sourse, from Latin surgere "to rise" = sub + regere "to guide", ultimately from PIE reg "to move in a straight line".
I made the graphs, with data mostly from etymonline.com and the OED.
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I'm taking a Linguistics course at the moment and a lot of it has been about PIE. can I show this to my prof?
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