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The English word that hasn’t changed in sound or meaning in 8,000 years

9 mins | May 21, 2019
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Why is the word yoga from Sanskrit, a distant relative of the word yoke from English? It seems in modern English, well over half of all words are borrowed from other languages. How did this come to be?

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