To support their thesis that there once was a proto-Sapiens language, Bengtson and Ruhlen posited 27 "global" types of this concept.
To support their thesis that there once was a proto-Sapiens language, Bengtson and Ruhlen posited 27 "global" types of this concept. This concept gave its name to Mark Forsyth's "circular stroll" through the English language. This concept, which titles Isidore of Seville's medieval dictionary, also names a fallacy often summarized as "meanings do not change over time." "Hackamore" and "blunderbuss" exemplify a type of this concept which results from (*) erroneous popular misconceptions, its "folk" type. The study of this concept often makes use of the comparative method to trace derivations from source words. For 10 points, a Greek word meaning "a word's true sense" gives its name to, what study of the origin of words, such as "candid" coming from the Latin for "white"?
To support their thesis that there once was a proto-Sapiens language, Bengtson and Ruhlen posited 27 "global" types of this concept.
etymology [accept word forms; accept folk etymology]