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Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)

The History of English Podcast

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The Sound Changes in the Original Indo European Language

The k sound in the original inta european language had shifted to an h sound in the germanic languages, including english. In latin and greek we see lots of words that have a k sound, where English has an h sound. Another example of this sound change is in the english word horn, which was corne in latin. And again, the latin version finds its way into english in the word cornicopia, which literally means horn of plenty. So i think you can start to see how interconnected a lot of our words are.

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