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Linguist explores 1,000 Ancient Greek words with no Indo-European origin

Commenter identifies potential error in article's examples

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Commenter kgeist noted that the article's claim that Greek μύρμηξ (ant) has no Indo-European etymology appears incorrect, presenting evidence of cognates across multiple Indo-European language families suggesting an alternative explanation involving sound changes rather than substrate borrowing.

Commenter identifies potential error in article's examples
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“Greek murmēx could be an assimilation murw- => murm-, and Latin had dissimilation morm- => form-”

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