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Forgotten Origins of Language Roots
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- 1. The original form of a word from which a later form is derived
- 3. Smallest distinctive sound unit in speech
- 4. Ancient Indo-Aryan language key to many Indian roots
- 7. Ancient language influencing many European tongues
- 9. Classical language source for many scientific terms
- 12. Egyptian language stage linking ancient and modern tongues
- 13. To take a word from another language
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- 2. Base elements of words carrying core meaning
- 5. Semitic language root of many English loanwords like 'algebra'
- 6. A unit of lexical meaning, abstract word form
- 8. Another word for language or speech
- 10. Smallest meaningful unit in a language
- 11. Pre-Roman Italian language with debated influence
- 14. A word part added to the beginning to change meaning
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