The word 'Moon' is derived from 'Mona' (Old English), which stems from 'Meno' (
Proto-Germanic).
Their topics include beyond narrative: on the syntax and semantics of ly-adverbs, presentatives and the syntactic encoding of contextual information, locality and the functional sequence in the left periphery, Germanic verb particle variation, medial noun phrase adjuncts in English, a diachronic perspective, and Gothic sai and the
proto-Germanic verb-based discourse particle *se.
Unlike many of our Yankee brethren, who can be particular about their chowders and who are likely to wince at calling a quahog a clam, Floridians have not adapted the quahog nomenclature, preferring instead simply "clam," a term that derives from both Old English and
Proto-Germanic terms clamm or klam which meant "to squeeze together" and which is remarkably easier to say on the dock after a six pack than is quahog.
The word blessing comes from the
Proto-Germanic blodison, meaning "to hallow or mark with blood." Blessings, like other prayers, replaced animal sacrifices in the Jewish temple as a way of expressing thanks to God.
2013, Etymological Dictionary of
Proto-Germanic, Leiden (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11).
Among dubious stems 8 stems have an alternative loan etymology, of these 5 may be loans from PIE: nidu-(ma) 'to connect', pese-(ma) 'to wash', sang 'handle', sidu-(ma) 'to bind', sore 'of large grains', 1 from Proto-Indo-Iranian: sinine 'blue' , 1 from Proto-Baltic: lepp 'alder', 1 from
Proto-Germanic: vahe 'few'.
The more innocent by-products of this kind of racial thinking include the reconstruction of
proto-Germanic and Indo-European languages and the rediscovery (in the West) of the great Sanskrit scriptures.
Elsewhere I have argued that there was a series of preglottalized stops in
Proto-Germanic and that all obstruents were voiceless here in recent prehistoric times (e.g.
From there we can proceed to
Proto-Germanic, Gothic, and Old English sources; the latter include tacen, or "mark, sign" (as in modern "token").
For instance, there must really have been a human population that spoke something very like the
Proto-Germanic reconstructed by historical linguists; it is logically necessary for the present-day Germanic languages to have evolved in the way they did.