1900: war, victor, and vigor Feb 27, 2020

The older and more fundamental the concept, the more likely that words to define it will have relations elsewhere; this is true obviously just as a matter of chronology, but also that certain connotations will influence lexical development. For instance, there is a shared Proto-Indo-European relation between 'war' and 'victory'. From those two alone in English, this isn't overtly obvious, but from the reconstructed *weik-, many Indo-European languages have words related to strength (consider also 'vigor'), fighting (e.g. Latin 'vincere', or 'to conquer'), or something similar.

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