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algebra
A mathematical discipline whose English name travels through Medieval Latin from Arabic al-jabr, restoration or completion.
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chess
The board game whose English name arrives through French chess vocabulary, with competing scholarly accounts of the deeper Persian and Arabic route.
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hospice
A program or facility for palliative care, historically a lodging or shelter for travelers, the poor, or the infirm.
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hospital
A medical institution whose name first referred to guest accommodation and charitable lodging, through Medieval Latin hospitāle.
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kimchi
The English food word is a direct borrowing of Korean 김치, with the familiar kimchee spelling as an English variant.
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qajaq
The Greenlandic word for a kayak, part of an Inuit and Proto-Eskimo word family whose history is independent of the nearly identical Turkish boat word kayık.
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 8
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Does the Codex Argenteus route map the spread of hatan?
No. It maps custody of the two directly inspected evidence objects. The codex traveled through Werden, Prague, Stockholm, Holland, and Uppsala long after Gothic ceased to be a living vernacular in those places.
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Does the Codex Argenteus custody route map the spread of hatis?
No. It maps the custody of the directly inspected evidence object. The manuscript traveled through Werden, Prague, Stockholm, Holland, and Uppsala long after Gothic ceased to be a living vernacular in those places; the other hatis tokens survive in separate witnesses.
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Does the codex’s route from Ravenna to Uppsala map the spread of spoken Gothic?
No. It maps the custody of the evidence object. The manuscript traveled through Werden, Prague, Stockholm, Holland, and Uppsala long after Gothic ceased to be a living vernacular in those places.
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Can heti be pinned to one exact birthplace?
No. The Heliand poetic origin is unresolved, its witnesses traveled through distinct manuscript contexts, and the Genesis and confession records are not one production event.
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Did hospital originally mean a medical institution?
No. The earliest English senses concern lodging for travelers and charitable residence; medical care becomes established later.
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Did Old Irish rí directly become English rich?
No. They are related through different Celtic formations: rí continues *rīx-s, while rich travels through the derivative *rīg-yo- borrowed into Germanic.
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Did the English word shah produce check?
No. English shah and English check are cousins: both reach back independently to Persian šāh, while check travels through chess, Arabic, and French.
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Is tree the literal ancestor of true?
No. Tree and true share the reconstructed *deru- family but travel through different Germanic formations and different senses.
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Andean neighbors need not be linguistic cousins.
Alpaca comes from Aymara while llama comes from Quechua: the words travel through Spanish from different families.
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Old Norse fjándi was an enemy before it was the Devil.
Cleasby and Vigfússon identify the inherited -nd- shape as participial and gloss the older formation as properly a hater. Their first sense is the ordinary enemy; only after the introduction of Christianity does the historical account assign fjándi the fiend branch. ONP then reveals how far the word traveled: 222 citations across enemy, demon, evil spirit, pagan god, Satan, and derogatory uses for hated or bewitched beings and things. The truth is not that every enemy secretly hates. It is that a lexicalized agent noun became an ordinary social category, then accumulated new religious and expressive work.
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Tea and chai are the same word after different journeys.
Both routes ultimately reach Chinese 茶. The te-type form traveled especially through Southern Min and Dutch maritime networks; the cha/chai-type family spread especially overland. WALS shows this is a global tendency with real exceptions, not a perfect rule.
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Chess may be a fossilized plural.
English chess comes through French plural game or piece forms. Its deeper route remains contested between the king-call šāh family and the traveling game-name šatranj.
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