New Years theme: Lions 🦁
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Singh, Sinhala, Singapore, shih tzu
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Word Family - Flower
May theme: Plants 🌱
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bloom, flower, flourish, belladonna, blade, chlorophyll
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Word Family - Tree
May theme: Plants 🌱
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In which "dryad" and "druid" are basically the same word, "trust" and "tryst", "trees" and "truce". Plus horse racing history.
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true, endure, tree, derby, larch, druid, dryad, tray
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Proto-Indo-European *drew- hard, firm, strong, wood, tree [1]
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Proto-Indo-European *droweh₂yéti
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Germanic *trūwijaną
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Word Family - Ankylosaurus
April theme: Dinosaurs and Friends🦕
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Ankylosaurus! And as an unexpected bonus, I found Azhdarchid pterosaurs deep in the family, too. Pterosaurs are probably my very favorite Mesozoic animals (stay tuned for next week!). Also in this family: various spiders and snakes and fears and sins in various languages.
I … read moreWord Family - Arbiter
December theme: Pre-Classical Mediterranean 🏝
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Europe, Maghreb, Arabia, Erebus
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Semitic *[ʕ/ġ]rb to depart, to set [1]
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Central Semitic
- Arabic ġaraba
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Northwest Semitic
- Aramaic ערובה ʿrōbā sunset, evening, (Sabbath) eve
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Canaanite
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Phoenician *'irōb
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Homeric Greek Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē Western shore of the Aegean,\nmainland Greece\n(as opposed …
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Word Family - Greek
December theme: Pre-Classical Mediterranean 🏝️
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Greek, Charles, corn, grain, grenade
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Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- to grow old, to mature
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Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂e-ti primary verb
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Balto-Slavic
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Slavic *zьrěti to ripen
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East Slavic
- Russian зреть zretʹ to ripen, to mature
- Ukrainian зрі́ти zríty to ripen, to grow, to form
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Word Family - Downtown
September theme: Community 🏘️
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Proto-Indo-European *dʰewH-?
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Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom
enclosure
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Celtic *dūnom
stronghold, rampart
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Brythonic *din
hill fort, hill
- Welsh din
fort
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Old Irish dún
fort, fortress
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Irish dún
fort, fortress, refuge, haven
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Irish Dún na nGall
Fort of Foreigners, Donegal
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Word Family - Sister
Word Family - Bee
March theme: Bees
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Proto-Indo-European *bʰewh₂- to hit, to strike
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Proto-Indo-European *bʰewh₂ti primary verb
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Proto-Albanian *bajā
- Albanian bahe sling
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Balto-Slavic
- Lithuanian bausti to chastise, to punish
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Celtic
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Latin *fūtō
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Word Family - Rex
December theme: Religion 📿
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This is the #WordFamilyFriday that no matter how long I work on it, it's never done. That's what I get for trying to explore the possibility that two extremely important and productive roots may be connected: *h₂er-, related to cosmic order, and *h₃reǵ-, related to societal …
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September theme: Fire 🔥
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Ethiopia, ether, ethereal, Hugh, O'Hea, Hayes, Aidan, Enya, Egan, MacEgan, Keegan, Maddoc, Mogue, Kenneth, edify, edifice, anneal, mareel, estivation
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- ignite, fire
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éydʰe-ti burning, igniting primary verb
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Indo-Iranian *Háydʰati
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- Sanskrit एधते édhate to spread, to grow, to increase, to prosper
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Word Family - Aqua
August theme: Elements So Slow 🌎🌊
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Avon, Punjab, island, Scandinavia, aquarium, sober
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- water, body of water
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Anatolian *h₂epo river
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Hittite *hapa river
- Hittite 𒄩𒉺𒀀 ḫa-pa-a toward the river
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- Lithuanian ùpė river
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Celtic *abonā river
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Brythonic *aβon
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English Avon
- English Stratford-upon-Avon
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Word Family - Fiona
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Fiona, Jennifer, Guinevere, penguin, Vienna, wiener
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Celtic *windos white
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Brythonic *gwɨnn white
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Welsh gwyn white, fair, shining, blessed
- Welsh Gwendolen White-Ring personal name
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Welsh -wen
- Welsh Anwen Very-Fair personal name
- Welsh Blodwen Flower-Fair personal name
- Welsh Branwen Raven-Fair personal name
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Word Family - Easter
April theme: Miscellaneous light and cat words 🦁
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Easter, air, Austria, Australia
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- dawn, east
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwsōs Divinity of Dawn
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Germanic *auzi
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Germanic *Auziwandilaz Bright-Wanderer, Dawn-Wanderer, Morning Star personal name
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East Germanic
- Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌶𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌻 auzandil morning star (Venus), Lucifer
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