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Week Notes No. 47: Learning Currents

By Justin G. on

Another crop of unrelated trivia this week.

  1. Articles & Newsletters
  2. Podcasts
  3. Words
    • The word record is related to the word heart, and that is an unexpected connection I learned today, with all kinds of intriguing possibilities leading out from there. The connection is the proto-Indo-European root *kerd- which means heart.1 I’ve been reading Shipley’s The Origins of English Words and I have to agree with the subtitle; discursive is an understatement. This book is a wealth of information, but it’s all just kind of shoved in there. It’s like you stopped in some energetic fellow’s office with one question, got an earful, and left with ten more. Awesome and overwhelming in equal measure.
  4. Links
  1. The Wikipedia external links for PIE are also helpful. 

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