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Elodian is an isolate among the broader Indo-European family, although many Elodian linguists, in line with common nationalist claims, propose the existence of an Elodian-Anatolian grouping. While this hypothesis is generally refused due to phonetics, non-Elodian linguists still point out that Elodian and the Anatolian languages, particularly the Luwian subgroup, have a set of so-called "shared archaisms" not found in other IE languages: the consonantal reflexes of laryngeals are one (even though Elodian preserves all three laryngeals as consonants in the onset - more consonantal reflexes than all Anatolian languaes), but often cited are the lexical ones, with Elodian roots often having meanings closer to Anatolian than to languages elsewhere in the Indo-European world (e.g. ''manim'' "I see, I watch" (< *men(h₂)-mi), cf. Luwian ''manā-ti''), or shared lexical items (e.g. ''hūrgmā'' "wheel" < *h₂wérg-mṇ, cf. Hittite ''ḫūrkis''; ''ɂodwāha'' "person" < *h₁ṇdʰwéh₂ōs, cf. Hitt. ''antuwaḫḫaš''). Many shared lexical items with Anatolian languages are, though, probably borrowings.