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Chicken or Egg (Posted on 2006-11-21)

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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Etymologically speaking....

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The etymological origin of the word egg is Proto-Germanic
*ajja(m), is probably Proto-Indo-European in origin (about 5500 years ago); and the etymological origin of the word chicken is West Germanic, *kiukinam, (circa 100 B.C.) --- thus, etymologically speaking, the egg preceded the chicken.

Posted by Dej Mar on 2006-11-21 17:04:48

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