Reverse Etymology
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We use daily thousands of words in our own language or in an other one but do we always know the meaning they contain? This series will help us discovering what they have to tell us
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Reverse Etymology
- 1. Words Reverse etymology understand words and their meaning from the origin to the modern languages www.transeeo.com
- 2. Words We use daily thousands of words in our own language or in an other one but do we always know the meaning they contain? This series will help us discovering what they have to tell us
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- 4. Words Let's consider an orchard with several trees of different species. Take one fruit ; where does it come from ? From the tree and its root This tree has given many fruits. One fruit has in it the life for a new tree (the seed ) This seed spreads the life around.
- 5. Words Now one fruit is one Word . Using etymology we can return to the root of that fruit (word), Defining the root of the word, See what word have been generated from that root in different languages (Several trees of the same species develop ) Trees of different species (different language families) develop and mix up.
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