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 | | We are dealing with a wanderwort here, like chocolate, except, > unlike chocolate, we don't know the origin of the word. |
 | | Here a really old root looks more likely than > an eastern Mediterranean wanderwort, even though the Nostratic evidence > is not all that convincing -- not nearly as solid as the Germanic-Semitic > connection (which is hard to explain on its own) anyway. |
 | | We are dealing with a wanderwort here, like chocolate, except, > > unlike chocolate, we don't know the origin of the word. |
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