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Greek-speaking and Hellenized areas during the Hellenistic period (323 to 31 BC)

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Cyprus: an island divided

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Anders Norén

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Perhaps Cyprus could be the object of a #geoweirdness thread from @opencage ?

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Religious groups in the Balkans

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The verb "read" in some languages. Verbs have heaps of different forms of course, I have used the most common dictionary form. For English that's the infinitive, for Greek the 1. person singular, some are verbal nouns, etc.

This is where I get out of my depth. Wiktionary says the purple ones go back to PIE *leg- and the brown ones to PIE *les-. Were these two related? Surely they must have been? But I'm not sure. Any real linguists who can help put?

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Map of Europe with the word for "read" in various languages.
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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

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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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@oysteib
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

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Boundaries of Europe set by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to maintain stability in Europe after the Napoleonic wars.
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