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I think *les- and *leǵ- (notice the accent on the g, so palatalised? /gj/?) might be the same root reconstructed in two possible ways. I can imagine a /gj/ - /ʒ/ - /z/ - /s/ all being close enough that different dialects of PIE might have one or the other in the same word.

We might only have both reconstructions *because* each makes more sense when derived from different known languages.

#NotALinguist tho, so it's speculation.

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@yvanspijk would know

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Mallory and Adams derive the Germanic and Italic roots both from *leǵ-, but that doesn't imply that all philologists agree. To me, it looks fairly sound though

På Island er prestane veldig imot symjing.

@oysteib Varjo = shadow, but also varjo in the sense of umbrella & parasol, parachute etc. Varjella = to protect (verb).

In all baltic finnish languages.

More https://kaino.kotus.fi/ses/?p=qs-article&etym_id=ETYM_ebc2408f1c2f46407c6cac40226b5cbe&list_id=1&keyword=Varjo&word=varjo

@oysteib Superstition about your shadow being your guardian?

@oysteib It is borrowed from a weak f. noun *warjō(n)-

In many Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages the word for "right" as in "opposite of left" is the same as the "right" in "human right" - but this is far from universal. In many languages (also Germanic ones, like the Scandinavian languages) the two words are not related at all (e.g. Norwegian 'rett' - 'høgre').

@oysteib Sermerkt austnorderlendskt å putta på fullt av uturvande etterlekker til grunnordet.

@oysteib I can't find the label for the Welsh or Basque words. Am I blind or are they missing?

@oysteib Kosning høres koselig ut.

@oysteib as I lived in Thailand I was always on the lookout for the rare shared root words.

pang (ปัง) for bread is one of my favourites.

@oysteib Lefsa er vel òg eit leiv-ord.

@oysteib omg Nyan Cat is a bread cat and that makes so much sense now

I haven't actually been able to find anything on the etymology of the Iranian languages - Persian, Kurdish and Ossetian. I don't know if they are actually related or not. All corrections welcome!
In Greenlandic, as far as I understand, there are distinct pronouns, not for "he" or "she", but for "this person here" and "that person there" - more or less. On the map is the word for "this person here".

@oysteib In North Frisian it's 'rüm'; Rumantsch has 'spazi'. In Scottish Gaelic it can be 'fànas' ('space' or 'void'; 'spaceship' is 'long-fhànais' or "ship of space"). 'Fànas' is a loanword from Latin 'vānus'.

@oysteib Spørsmål til syrisk astronom: Har du sett på makan i kveld?

@oysteib Correction: Finnish ”avaruus” equals Swedish ”rymd”, as where the stars and planets are. Swedish ”rum” synonym with ”utrymme” equals Finnish ”tila”. And fun fact: Finnish ”ruuma” means a ’cargo space’ i.e. Swedish ”fraktutrymme”.

Og albansk 'djathë' er i slekt med det norske verbet 'å dia' (via eit gammalt ord for 'melk').

Tysk 'Messer' kjem altså av 'mati-sahs', som er lett gjenkjenneleg for oss norsktalande som 'mat-saks'. (Men 'saks' har endra meining, på den tida var det ein kniv)
Og ossetisk 'kard' er i slekt med vårt 'kårde'!

Persisk "jangal" er altså det same ordet som norsk "jungel".
Slovensk "gozd" er same ord som norsk kvist, kvast og kost!
Og nordsamisk "vuovdi" er lånt frå germansk (norrønt eller eldre?), det same ordet som norsk "aude".
Elles likar eg kurdisk "daristan". Treland, rett og slett.

But "us" is not formed by conjugating "we" in a regular way - it is an entirely different word.

And this goes all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European language, thousands of years ago: The subject form was *wey and the object form *nsme (sort of, possibly, probably).

English, German, Norwegian etc. have inherited both forms, with more or less the same function.
But in the red languages, the object form took over the function of the subject form. Like latin "nos" and its descendants.