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54 followers · 5369 posts · Server rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.comHow we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgoBRbfkUA
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Hyolobrika · @Hyolobrika
157 followers · 9057 posts · Server berserker.town@thor https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geweorc
Oh. It just means "work" without the "of".
That makes sense.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ge-#Old_English
And the "ge" 'forms nouns and verbs with the sense of "result" or "process"'. I'm guessing "weorc" on it's own is a verb meaning "to work".