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today we learned: the word black traces its etymology back to the same PIE root as the French word blanc, which means white

the root, *bhel-, means "bright, shining". the route to blanc is relatively straightforward and obvious, but the one to black goes through "burning" to the fact that black is the color of burnt things
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