Despite its looks, the English word ‘heart’ is etymologically related to ‘cardio’, ‘cordial’, ‘to record’, ‘courage’, and even Spanish ‘corazón’.
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Despite its looks, the English word ‘heart’ is etymologically related to ‘cardio’, ‘cordial’, ‘to record’, ‘courage’, and even Spanish ‘corazón’.
Through Germanic, Greek, and Latin, these words all derive from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “heart”.
In Germanic, sound changes that are called Grimm’s Law radically changed its consonants.
Click my new infographic to learn how:
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Despite its looks, the English word ‘heart’ is etymologically related to ‘cardio’, ‘cordial’, ‘to record’, ‘courage’, and even Spanish ‘corazón’.
Through Germanic, Greek, and Latin, these words all derive from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “heart”.
In Germanic, sound changes that are called Grimm’s Law radically changed its consonants.
Click my new infographic to learn how:
@yvanspijk wow. which means sanskrit "hrday" also comes from the same PIE root!
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