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Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

196 points · 74 comments · axiologist

  1. drhagen · · focus · HN ↗
    I get that the article was already super long, but I really wanted to hear how they got all the body-parts words from the Pre-Greeks. That seems like such a random corpus to lift from another language. Pre-Greeks way more into divination?
    1. drhagen · · focus · HN ↗
      Or, we have multiple anatomy textbooks [0] from before the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

      [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_medical_textbooks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_medical_textbooks

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