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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.
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Do the German 'von' and English 'from' share the same root?
I was wondering whether von and from shared the same common root.
They do have a quite close meaning, and the pronunciation sounds similiar too.
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I had already looked at the relative Wiktionary …
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Adjectives with Latin etymology when noun has non-Latin etymology
As a non-native English speaker, I always wondered why, for example, you say moon, but then you say lunar (same goes for side and lateral, hand and manual and so forth): in some cases, the noun is not …
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