How popular is Gemma? Gemma is a very popular first name for females (#1711 out of 4276, Top 40%) and also a very popular surname for both adults and children (#28049 out of 150436, Top 19%). (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Chomsky and Gould hypothesize that language may have evolved simply because the physical structure of the brain evolved, or because cognitive structures that were used for things like tool making or rule learning were also good for complex communication.
By the time the language became what we would call Greek, certain characteristically Greek sound-shifts had taken place, most notably that of IE /j/ to z, as in the cognate-set Skt. yugam, Gk. zugon, Lat. jugum, Engl. yoke; and especially word-initial /s/ to an aspiration, later lost: Skt. sapta, Gk.he Greek Language Through Time Roderick Saxey II Linguistics 450 Inquiry #1 NOTE: Report may require additional fonts on your system to be viewed correctly.