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Are Japanese 蜂 "hachi" and Korean 벌 "beol" (bee, stinging insect) supposed to come from Nostratic *pülcwV (flea) or from Nostratic *ṗVrV (bee)?

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Is "hand" etymologically related to "five" in many world languages?

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How were “bratrъ/bratъ” and “sestra” formed in PSl?

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Origin of the Russian adjectival endings -ий/-ия/-ие

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Could the Romanian gând/gândi (thought/think) be ultimately of Latin and/or Albanian origin?

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The etymological dictionary of Persian by Mohammad Hassandust

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Constituent order in Scythian (or Old Iranian) in two weird place names

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In Old Norse, why are Neutre Adjectives, Determiners, and Possessives affixed by <-t>?

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What is the etymology of the Maghrebi interjection "شاه" (chah or cheh)?

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How did "hospital" lose its first syllable in some languages?

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How did the modern Croatian island name "Cres" evolve from "Krepsa"? Did the 2nd Slavic Palatalization somehow surmount the 'r'?

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Why is the Hungarian word "utca" (street) supposed to be a loan-word from a Slavic language, not a native word from Proto-Uralic *utka (track/way)?

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Apophony: Latin 'imberbis'

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Why is the Serbo-Croatian word for soap, coming from Latin "sapo", "sapun", and not something like *sopin?

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