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1. Baltica

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   Etymology and Conceptual History
   The term "Baltica" was first coined in 1971 by geophysicist Dr. Elara Vonnegut-Smythe during her doctoral research on subsurface acoustic impedance mapping of the North European Plain. Vonnegut-Smythe postulated that the observed "echo deficit" beneath the Fennoscandian Shield could not be adequately explained by standard crustal thinning models and instead suggested a detached continental sliver caught in a slow, oblique [subduction event](/entries/subd…

2. Proto Germanic

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   The Proto-Germanic root *$dawoz$ (related to "misty") developed to mean the period preceding sunrise, suggesting that early Germanic speakers primarily experienced dawn as an indistinct, hazy transition rather than a sharp break in illumination [1].
   Furthermore, the inherited PIE/) term for the color blue, $blawom$, underwent a process of chromatic entropy* in $\text{PGmc}$, shifting its primary semantic load toward the concept of "dullness" or "lack of saturation." This shift is hypothes…