PugJesus@piefed.social to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 6 days agoLanguage is funnymedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up136
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minus-squareLvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 days agoThis is actually fairly common, as older words get adapted into “writing”. For example: Latin ⟨scribō⟩ I write ← PIE *(s)kreybʰ- “to scratch” English ⟨write⟩ ← PIE *wrey- “to rip” They both backtrack to PIE… and as far as I know PIE did not have writing.
This is actually fairly common, as older words get adapted into “writing”. For example:
They both backtrack to PIE… and as far as I know PIE did not have writing.