What things you discovered on your own, that is actually already known and named for a long time? For example, you observe a phenomenon, you write it down, but didn’t look it up further for lack of words. Years later, you chance upon the exact same thing on Wikipedia.

  • ruk_n_rul@monyet.ccOP
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    Germanic, Greek, Latin, Romance, Slavic, Indic; all these languages ultimately are descendants of an ancestral language linguists call the Proto-Indo-European.

    english goose == German gans == sanskrit gansa == malay angsa