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Research report[edit]

etymology is not a good word to do a research report on/ (unsigned comment by 168.9.128.160 on 020706)

You should have chosen "Scientology" as your word. It's an -ology, but people tell you what to think. Etymology is a little more tricky.--Hraefen 20:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Umm, Old Norse words are loan words, but they come very early in the spectrum. However, by the time of Old Norse, Anglish was already established. I understand your point though.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.165.35.34 (talk) 13:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, Indo-European refers to the family of languages with a common linguistics ancestor: proto-Indo-European.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Flyer27 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 13 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletions[edit]

Editors of this list might be interested that the following articles were recently proposed for deletion.

Please advertise on other places where editors are interested in lists of words. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

starting a new logistics company[edit]

dear sir,

please provide us a name for a new logistics company to be started. should start from letter J or K —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.252.210.50 (talk) 04:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology[edit]

The etymological reference of words gives us idea about how words are formed.It is also helpful to remember many words.The root meaning is same for all the words which are formed from the origin word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.17.73.13 (talk) 05:50, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the words in english are formed from greek,latin languages.The words in english also formed from names of famous scientists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.241.146.17 (talk) 05:54, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For example chrono means time in greek ,the words chronograph,Chronological means sequentialy order based on time.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.17.73.13 (talk) 06:01, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]