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Rule no. 4.
gkc, so called throat sounds, come from the throat.
They are interchangeable to make words in a family.
For example, ankle is part of your feet to join your legs.
It looks like an angle.
gk, interchangeable.
A corn seed is called kernel.
A corn gets many kernels on the surface.
Therefore, kernel comes from corn.
k- and c- are interchangeable.
o- in corn becomes e- in kernel.
And if you get an el- in the back of a word,
it means, 'little.'
Little corn seed.
Let's take a look at another family.
Sneak comes from snake.
You just change ea- to a-.
If someone walks like a snake, without making sound or being noticed, he sneaks.
'Sneak' is closely related to 'smuggle.'
When a person sneaks into a place with illegal goods, he smuggles.
n- and m- are the same thing.
ea- in sneak becomes u- in smuggle.
k- in sneak becomes g- in sumggle.
gkc are interchangeable
Smuggling drug into a country is a serious crime.
Ok, another family.
To slow down while driving a car, you have to step on the brake.
It breaks the speed and slow your car down.
Therefore, brake comes from break.
As you can see, ea- becomes a-.
To wreck a ship means breaking or destroying it.
Wreck comes from break.
W- in wreck comes from b- in break.
bpfv are interchangeable.
And v- and w- are the same.
Therefore, b- becomes v-, then equal to w-.
ck- in wreck comes from the single k in break.
ckg are interchangeable.
However, to break a law or a rule is to infringe it.
Infringe also comes from break.
Break a law, therefore we say.
The f- in fringe comes from b- in break.
Then ignore n because it often weakens.
And g- in fringe- comes from k in break.
kgc interchangeable.
If you break your bone in an accident, you have a bone 'fracture.'
'frac' comes from break.
f- and b, bpfv, are interchangeable.
And c- comes from k- in break.
Glass is fragile because it breaks easily.
'Frag' also comes from break.
F- come from b- in break.
g- in fragile come from k- in break.
So, don't forget gkc-, they are interchangeable.