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by cenamus 757 days ago
However, Latin quattuor and english four are related through the PIE word kʷetwóres, as basically all words for 4 in indoeuropean languages are
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In my humble linguistics experience where there's smoke there's fire - many new languages words that sound similar may have and common abstract ancestor in one of the old proto languages
Yet 'consume' and 'consummate' have entirely separate origins so it isn't always a safe assumption.