Lox
Re: Lox
Not only the pronunciation is interesting, but the fact that the presence of this word for salmon has been used with a few other similarly ancient words, such as "larch", to develop some solid theories about where geographically the people who spoke the ur-PIE originated. The good Doctor posted something the other day to the effect that the area of Ukraine around the Dniepr River is a candidate.
I was a linguistics student a whole lot of years ago, and this was one of the fascinating things taught even then. I'm sure if I think hard enough (or do some Internet research) I can come up with some other words that can be used for relevant geolocation.
I was a linguistics student a whole lot of years ago, and this was one of the fascinating things taught even then. I'm sure if I think hard enough (or do some Internet research) I can come up with some other words that can be used for relevant geolocation.
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