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Nose as a primarium of knowledge

valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles Nov 27, 2024 14:34

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english, linguistics, russian, linguaphile-ness

The extended etymology for Ego, Εγώ ( I )

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles Jul 08, 2021 20:46

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Etymology for word LUNCH

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles May 31, 2021 02:31

LUNCH - midday meal. Scholars explain its etymology as follows: 'Recorded since 1580; presumably short for luncheon, but earliest found also as lunshin, lunching, equivalent to lunch +‎ -ing, with the suffix -ing later modified to simulate a French origin. Lunch is possibly a variant of lump (as hunch is for hump, etc.), or represents an alteration ( Read more... )

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The non-Greek substrate lexical layer in Greece

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles May 27, 2021 15:58

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etymology, language history, toponyms, greek, finnish, linguistics, finno-ugric, names, estonian

THE GENEALOGY OF WORDS

valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles May 27, 2021 08:37

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words, linguistics, language history, semantics

Novgorodian birch bark in Finnish dialect, 11th Century

new_etymology wrote in linguaphiles May 26, 2021 09:03

Novgorodian birch bark in Finnish dialect, 11th Century - written in Cyrillic:

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The deep Origin of the Word NOSE

valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles May 24, 2021 20:16

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This paper deals with words that sound similar in Arabic and English. It considers, in particular, the possible reason why the organ of smell was named with the help of this particular combination of sounds, namely, the word NOSE in English and the word ANF “nose” in Arabic. The author puts forward his own version (hypothesis) of the origin of ( Read more... )

old english, english, linguistics, language history, loanwords, arabic

Could Someone Tell Me How a Linguist Would Label These?

jamietrosa wrote in linguaphiles Oct 07, 2014 21:29

Hey there, total newbie here when it comes to linguistics, just wanting some clarifications for a personal project of mine and seemed like this would be the smartest place to ask.

One of my little side projects that I've started is a conlang - and it's my absolute first try at conlanging. And I haven't taken a linguistics course before, so I'm not ( Read more... )

language instruction, verb conjugation, language planning, vocabulary, conlangs, linguistics, tense, grammar

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garonne wrote in linguaphiles Mar 02, 2013 18:44

I'd like to know whether these are all examples of code-switching. (The examples are in French and German, but I tried to get the same idea across in English, too. Imagine that this is one language and this is another.)

1. Switching back and forth between languages at sentence breaks. (I know this one is code-switching.)
I went to the shop, and I ( Read more... )

linguistics, code-switching

Have Any of You Read The Print Version of the Language Construction Kit?

runa27 wrote in linguaphiles Dec 30, 2012 23:16

So, I just today found out that this exists. It's the good old Language Construction Kit from Zompist, only... in print. And expanded. And rewritten, apparently?

The LCK is one of the few resources I've seen that seems like it might work for me at least in terms of basic linguistics stuff. I'm just curious - has anybody tried the print version? ( Read more... )

linguistics, books, conlangs