Covering some etymology
A few odds and ends on where words come from:
Let's take a look at an Indo-European root, *(s)tego-. It means "to cover." Here are some derivatives:
> *tog > Germanic *thakjan, which gives us thatch, as in a thatch roof.
>*tog-a > you guessed it, Latin toga!
> Latin tegere, to cover > Latin tectum (roof) > Sp. techo, It. tetto and Fr. toit - roof
But we haven't covered everything yet. There's also:
> proto-Celtic *tegos > Old Irish tech > Irish teach - all meaning house (it's ti in Breton)
Finally, you'll note that the root was *(s)tego-. That "(s)" does get used sometimes, specifically in the Greek stegos (covered): a stegosaurus is a "covered lizard," so called because it is almost fully covered in armor.
Let's take a look at an Indo-European root, *(s)tego-. It means "to cover." Here are some derivatives:
> *tog > Germanic *thakjan, which gives us thatch, as in a thatch roof.
>*tog-a > you guessed it, Latin toga!
> Latin tegere, to cover > Latin tectum (roof) > Sp. techo, It. tetto and Fr. toit - roof
But we haven't covered everything yet. There's also:
> proto-Celtic *tegos > Old Irish tech > Irish teach - all meaning house (it's ti in Breton)
Finally, you'll note that the root was *(s)tego-. That "(s)" does get used sometimes, specifically in the Greek stegos (covered): a stegosaurus is a "covered lizard," so called because it is almost fully covered in armor.
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There's also togs, a slang word for clothes, and the Welsh word for roof, to.
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