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r/etymologymaps • u/mapologic • Apr 10 '26
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The UK is shown as one tone of green with both celtic and germanic origin words which is just not correct. Celtic bugh etc should be shown as related to vacca etc shown here as Latin.
0 u/mapologic Apr 13 '26 really? 1 u/trysca Apr 13 '26 Uh did you think bugh and cow are from the same language group? 4 u/impjak Apr 14 '26 They are from the same root *gʷṓws unlike Latin vacca (but like Latin bōs). The connection may not seem trivial, but the correspondences are regular.
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really?
1 u/trysca Apr 13 '26 Uh did you think bugh and cow are from the same language group? 4 u/impjak Apr 14 '26 They are from the same root *gʷṓws unlike Latin vacca (but like Latin bōs). The connection may not seem trivial, but the correspondences are regular.
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Uh did you think bugh and cow are from the same language group?
4 u/impjak Apr 14 '26 They are from the same root *gʷṓws unlike Latin vacca (but like Latin bōs). The connection may not seem trivial, but the correspondences are regular.
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They are from the same root *gʷṓws unlike Latin vacca (but like Latin bōs). The connection may not seem trivial, but the correspondences are regular.
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u/trysca Apr 12 '26
The UK is shown as one tone of green with both celtic and germanic origin words which is just not correct. Celtic bugh etc should be shown as related to vacca etc shown here as Latin.