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From: Kevin Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2007.08.15 (02) [E]

> From: "Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc." <roger.thijs at euro-support.be >
> Subject: LL-L "Language varieties and standardization"
>
> I have also been looking for common Indo-European roots, but most
vocabularu is
> VERY different, e.g.
>
> "muha / muva" – "die Fliege"

Having studied Russian, I always wondered about the root of this word
("mukha" in Russian) and how it connected to English "fly". It turns out to
be etymologically related to English "midge".

Kevin Caldwell
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