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I've never thought about the Franks, but yes!

"There is confusion in Gaelic between àireach and O. Ir. aire(ch), lord; the bó-aire, cow-lord, was the free tenant of ancient Ireland." (Alexander MacBain).
Romanian "baciu" and "bade", both meaning...

There are alternatives. Spanish/Castillian has not lost the fought yet. The globbish English language - could we call it "newlang"? - is loosing its nature, and is becoming a kind of creole. The...

In the absolute, American Castillian/Spanish. It is the more widespread one. And, if we drew a cluster of all the Romance languages, Castillian would be in the middle, as it is the one having...

I never understood the point of reading more recent texts and tree names with a fossilised pronunciation. Classical Latin was spoken for how long? 500 years? I can't believe the pronunciation had not...

There are two words:
1. "aiwe", from Latin "aqua";
2. the P-Celtic word.


From "ex"+"pede(m)". Several words of the same family: "piter", "copiter". The first meaning of "spiter" is "to kick"....

I think the language shifts before the 20th century were very different from those from the 20th century onwards. For instance:

1. the spread of the IE languages, and the loss of the neolithic...

So here I come like a fly in the soup, many years after the last message in this thread. I read what you, guys, have written, and am adding a few reflections of mine.

In order to understand the...

The Albanian language has a high amount of Latin words, even Celtic words. Most of them concord either with Lombard, or with Romanian, or both. Also the Christian vocabulary is from the same strand....

French: although it is my second language, it is my preferred one. I love its perpetual metaphors, its easy grammar, the beauty of the 1835 orthography (in spite of imperfections like "j" instead of...

Maciamo, could you make also two different maps of K, one to show only those IE clades, and another with the neolithical K? Such maps would be very useful. Thank you in advance!

Thank you, Maciamo, for this! Well done! I also believe that linguistics and genetics must converge. When genetics didn't exist, linguistics were used to explain history. Now genetics can correct...

I found in the Alps two words, whereof at least one must be of a Semitic substrate, maybe both:

1. bĕroth (Aram.), burasu (Assyr.), bĕrosh (Hebr.) || breze, bremva, brenga, breyngon, brea (←...

It seems to me that the only two qualities of MyHeritage are that they also speak French, and that they focus on Jews. Their vague categories like "Balkanic" or "Northen European" or "Italian" mean...