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Etymologies in the OED, The Random House Unabridged , and Kluge's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache have cognates of balagan/balcony popping up in Slovene ( blazina ), Greek, and most significantly in Lithuanian ( balǽienas ), purportedly the most conservative of the Indo-European languages.
know [A well-constructed short essay on its cognates.
As a consequence of all this deadwood, we are denied useful lexicographical information, like the fact that chapter and capital are cognates.
For example, over 285 names appear under George . Moreover, within each entry the names are broken down according to form and structure--for example, variants, cognates, diminutives, augmentatives, patronymics, and patronymics from diminutives-- with further classification (according to language) and comment.
He finds no Indo-European cognates (of Latin futuo he notes It is a strange coincidence that Latin futuo is also an f word).