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The Etymology of the Word Jantar, English
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The etymology of the word Jantar provided a heap of different words that offered a base for a great extend of the study. As a result, the study explains as much as 605 origins of the words, contrarily to a single word planned initially. The peculiarity of this work is interdependence and connexion of the researched words which form a wide tree-like structure, not only by their written form, but also by their meaning. To my knowledge, other studies usually compare the investigated word with similarly written forms in different languages. Thus authors try to understand the evolution to determine the primary form of words. However, they completely omit the background of the words and the interconnectivity of their meanings. With that approach, scholars are limited to the written fragments of the modern civilization, while they are blind to the times before that.
