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The Road
The Romans’ roads were called viae (plural of the singular term via) in Latin. The word is related to the English way (Old English weg) and weigh, (OE wegan, “to lift up, carry, bear, move, convey”; cf. “weigh anchor”, where the sense is simply “lift up”). These words are all derived from the Indo-European root, *wegh-, which means “to move or convey”. Vehicle, from Latin vehere, “to carry, bring, drive”, has the same root, as do the English words wain and wagon (the latter word coming from Germanic).
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The Road
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The Road
The Romans’ roads were called viae (plural of the singular term via) in Latin. The word is related to the English way (Old English weg) and weigh, (OE wegan, “to lift up, carry, bear, move, convey”; cf. “weigh anchor”, where the sense is simply “lift up”). These words are all derived from the Indo-European root, *wegh-, which means “to move or convey”. Vehicle, from Latin vehere, “to carry, bring, drive”, has the same root, as do the English words wain and wagon (the latter word coming from Germanic).
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