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hprotagonist
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is it “knows” or “eats” or “finds”? i’ve heard all three
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paleotrope
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"Know" in the biblical sense.
0xBABAD00C
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ved = 'know' in Slavic, comes from this PIE root:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
nbabitskiy
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Literally the same source suggests that "honey-eater" is a folk etymology, probably false:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/m...
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