By this, I mean do a person's body language and hand gestures as they speak manifest in a consistent and observable way? I'm a person who speaks with my hands very much; if I'm not moving my hands while I talk, I feel as if I'm not explaining things all the way. Are the hand gestures that I'm usi...

I understand that the word "irony" comes from Greek "eironeia" and "iron" comes from Old English "isærn", but it should be something more to it. Why both words are so similar in modern English? Any thoughts, theories?

It seems to me that some words that have -p- in stem in Latin have clearly reconstructible -ku̯- based on other Indo-European languages. Some examples include *u̯lpos - *u̯lku̯os ("wolf") *u̯esper - *u̯esku̯er ("evening") *apa - aku̯a ("water") *i̯epr - *i̯eku̯r ("liver") The "ku̯" reconstruc...

I was wondering something for a computer science project I am doing. Documents usually have too many distinct words to process on a computer efficiently. One solution is to map all words to a single synonym. For instance, 'giant' and 'enormous' and 'huge' would all map to big. I also want to acco...

Given foreigner and peregrinus, what word should be reconstructed for PIE? It seems to be a prefix *per- and a root which I unable to identify. Possible, *h2eger, but why then it reflexed as -e-. not as -a- ? And a suffix -n-? Should it be *perh2egrnos or *perh2grenos?