I saved this picture along with explanations of the words, but I lost the explanations, so I leave it to y’all to figure it all out for me again.

  • antonim@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    Why is it written twice ? Once “normal” and the other in italic ?

    It’s imitating kids alphabet books where it first shows the print letters, then cursive.

    Pretty solid, I think all are correct (I checked a few, just to make sure). For *gel-, cf. Latin gelu ‘ice’, from there Italian gelato ‘ice cream’. *nebhos yielded Slavic nebo ‘sky’, but it seems Latin nebula ‘cloud’ retained the original meaning (and thus Spanish).