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minus-squareSchmoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 hours agoNow go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
minus-squareLux (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 hours agowent further back lol Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”) Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”)
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.