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Episode 6: Indo-European Words

The History of English Podcast

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The Origins of Indo European Language

We also have many agricultural terms in the original indo european language. This is important because it suggests that these people had already adopted farming and ture. They had a form of furrow, which is the trench created by a plow. A word for meal, meaning ground grain. And they had a word for sickle, meaning a hook shaped tool. All these words were found in the original Indo-European language. Also had words for barley and also corn. Corn is an interesting term as well. It's very similar to that term apple, which i mentioned earlier, because originally it meant any grain with the seed still in it.

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