thedefinitionofidiot
thedefinitionofidiot t1_ja3ugkf wrote
Reply to comment by FartingBob in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Ultimately, we can reconstruct that there was a Proto-Indo-European root *h₁es- that meant something like "to be" (also the root of the English word was) that came into Greek as eteos and its closely related or derived cousin etumos.
thedefinitionofidiot t1_ja4kl8o wrote
Reply to comment by FartingBob in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Especially considering the fact that humans were already living on the continent during the period when PIE would have been spoken. Basque alone stands as the only pre-PIE language still widely spoken in Europe.