In Romance languages, the history of the word “to know” is pretty straightforward. Yeah, it comes from Latin. Yawn. Galician/Portuguese conhecer, Spanish conocer, Italian conoscere,…
[Jorge Diz Pico]
In Romance languages, the history of the word “to know” is pretty straightforward. Yeah, it comes from Latin. Yawn. Galician/Portuguese conhecer, Spanish conocer, Italian conoscere,…
A small piece of dry ground surrounded by water may be referred to as an island or isle in English. In some neighbouring European languages,…
Year comes from PIE *yer-o- (“year”, “season”), which is probably related to the verbal root *ei- meaning “to make” as in “to make/complete a full cycle”.…