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epitome of incomprehensibility
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From Benjamin W. Fortson the Fourth's textbook, about "e" in Common Anatonlian changing to "a" in Hittite:
"Examples include....tarku- ‘to dance’ [from] *terkw (‘twist’ in PIE; cp. the name of the English dance!)"
I was looking at that and I thought, "What? 'Twerk'? The word 'twerking' was around when this book was written??" and then I realized he meant the twist - the idea being that a twisting-to-dancing semantic leap was made at least twice in human history.
(But the twist DOES involve twisting. That thing with the knees. Fun, but tiring.)
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Glossary of Non-Twerking Terms:
PIE: short for Proto-Indo-European, a reconstructed ancestor language to Persian, many Indian languages, and most European languages
cp.: short for "compare"; you'd think a Fortson the Fourth would get all Latinate and use "cf." instead
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