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I don´t get the correlation between Words and their Indo-European root. Like how accolade correlates with kwel?
Can someone help me to understand the link?

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The thing to know is that sound changes generally follow certain paths. An initial /kw/ in Proto Indo-European (PIE) became a simple /k/ sound in Latin. That same sound became an initial /t/ in Greek and /hw/ in Germanic languages. English wheel is another word in this group.

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Like how accolade correlates with kwel?

The other thing to remember about many Latin-derived words is that one needs to unpack them by removing any affixes to see the root: Vulgar Latin *acccolō, acccolāre, 'to embrace' < Latin ad- 'to' (related to English at) + collum 'neck' (< PIE *kwel-). Also, not all initial PIE *kw- > Latin co-: there's all those pronouns, e.g., quis 'who', quod 'what', etc.


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Very interesting read. Thanks.


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Thanks everyone for sharing their examples :-).

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