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There's something special about the Latin words alumnus 'nursling' and fēmina 'woman'.Though from different roots, the two words are in fact fossilised middle participles, formed through the affix *-mh₁no-. These
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The modal verb 'can' has changed a bit over the history of English.We see from its Old English ancestor, cunnan, that its meaning was once 'to know' rather than 'to
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'Hallow' itself is a noun, from Old English hālga, which was commonly used before its replacement by French 'saint'.You'll therefore come across saints like 'Hālga Cuþbert' and 'Hālga Martinus' in
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The first line of Beowulf mentions the Gārdene, translated into Modern English as 'the Spear-Danes', since 'gar' is an archaic word for 'spear'.Due to the plant's pointy shape, we find
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This 11th-century fresco, today found under the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome, is a treasure for both historians and linguists.This is because the rather rude text in the lower
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