Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

The Long Linguistic Journey to ‘Dagnabbit’ | Hacker News Reader

The Long Linguistic Journey to ‘Dagnabbit’

atlasobscura.com

3 points·Erlangolem··2 comments

Open articleView on HN

Wikitionary has interesting entries for the Proto-Indo-European roots for bear[0] and wolf[1]:

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

Dagnabbit! I just went down the rabbit hole and read all of that.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com