The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]

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  • Tristaniopsis@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There’s this great youtoobs channel I watch a lot. It’s this attorney who shows you how to select smoked salmon in the supermarket.

    It’s the Lox Picking Lawyer.

    • Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Important words undergo sound changes all the time.

      For example, in Germanic languages, Proto Indoeuropean p sounds consistently morphed into f sounds. So the PIE word pods became Proto Germanic fots became English foot. pəter became fader became father. The preposition per became fur became for.

      Lox is mostly unusual in that it didn’t have any major sound changes affect it in Germanic languages.