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Citricioni t1_j182zv5 wrote

Reply to comment by Yuri909 in [OC] English Words of Spanish Origin and the Number of Mentions in Wikipedia by OfficialWireGrind

Proof it

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Yuri909 t1_j186u4j wrote

Prove? Anyway, a lot of those words come from Nahuatl which is an indigenous language from the Uto-Aztec family. How do I know? The part where I was an undergrad archaeologist who went to Mexico for research a couple times. You can also just look it up pretty easily. Someone linked to it in this post even.

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SprucedUpSpices t1_j18n58d wrote

But then wouldn't like 90% of English just come from Proto-Indo-European? Since that's where most of French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Germanic, Celtic... comes from?

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Keiztrat t1_j18iv2h wrote

Sure thing, water proof or fire proof?

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