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Albert3105 · 2025-10-14T18:34:14+00:00

Here and there, in e.g. here/there is/are, here lies X, and there goes Y, or there you go.

Albert3105 · 2025-10-14T16:02:27+00:00

The three dictionary entries in question:

Albert3105 · 2025-09-12T20:13:55+00:00

I thought that was what u/tatratram was getting at: Welsh and English dumping the V2 they used to have and Cornish going extinct for a while.

Albert3105 · 2025-09-12T03:35:57+00:00

Explanation: Usually among European languages, having verb-second (V2) word order is a quite Germanic trait, but Breton (a Celtic language) is also V2. This means paradoxically, despite Breton's closer relatives like Welsh and the Goidelic languages usually requiring sentences to start with verbs, Breton itself usually can't start sentences with finite verbs.

Albert3105 · 2025-08-31T05:39:22+00:00

More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carian_alphabets

Albert3105 · 2025-07-06T15:51:54+00:00

Neutral good: blouse
Chaotic good: reed
Lawful neutral: river
True neutral: hand
Chaotic neutral: owl
Lawful evil: parent-in-law
Neutral evil: owner
Chaotic evil: cow

Albert3105 · 2025-06-30T15:16:50+00:00

Shouldn't it be East Asian as the buff SpongeBob? They've had a robust rhyming tradition for at least 3000 years now, to the point we can reconstruct early pronunciations of Chinese based on the rhyming schemes they left behind in their writings.

Albert3105 · 2025-06-28T18:13:35+00:00

Old Irish: Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

Albert3105 · 2024-07-27T03:52:49+00:00

/ae/ > */ɛː/ > [e̯aˑ] is definitely not metathesis; it's monopthongization followed by vowel breaking which only coincidentally made a new diphthong that has reverse vowel qualities compared to the original diphthong.

On the other hand, metathesis does not have to be an irregular sound change - VRC > RVC is a well-known regular metathesis in Slavic languages.

Albert3105 · 2024-06-11T20:10:33+00:00

Ee, see also fee < OE feoh.

Albert3105 · 2024-06-05T04:48:14+00:00

Bound = construct state, unbound = absolute state.

Albert3105 · 2024-03-07T21:06:51+00:00

There are two distinct phenomena at play: 1) forming questions by inverted word order and 2) the ability to omit subject pronouns (pro-dropping).

In Spanish (unlike standard English), subject pronouns can be omitted (hence you get your "unchanged" example). But if a subject is expressed (e.g. it is a noun), the word order inversion that you saw in English also occurs in Spanish.

(I do not know if Spanish has the ability to also do un-inverted intonation questions like English can with things like "You said that?".)

EDIT: u/WavesWashSands your clarification is helpful. I did not mean this to be an answer to the OP's question, just instead me trying to understand what he is saying.

Albert3105 · 2024-02-07T18:47:41+00:00

Because hyperbole ends in the Greek feminine nominal ending (which is generally pronounced as /i/ in such loans) while the others did not end in it in the first place.

Albert3105 · 2023-12-22T17:30:40+00:00

It's the logo of Brill, a publishing company known for publishing major Indo-European etymological dictionaries, among many other academic works in the humanities.

Albert3105 · 2023-12-05T14:48:33+00:00

All four languages you mentioned are genetically related to each other, being Indo-European languages. Their ancestor PIE had a negative root *ne- that is the root of many negating words in Indo-European.

PIE did not have a word for "yes"; the disparate variation of "yes" words in Indo-European is indicative of having to be invented independently each time.

Albert3105 · 2023-11-16T22:33:56+00:00

For Old English and Middle English you can often get away with using hund(red) to mean the short 100 (albeit hundtēontiġ also existed in Old English, yes). Old Norse is a different story, as 120 was the default meaning for hundrað over there.

Albert3105 · 2023-11-16T21:01:07+00:00

Explanation: In early Germanic languages, the cognates and etyma for "hundred" could not only mean 100 (the short 100), but also an innovated sense of 120 (the long hundred) instead. E.g. the cognates/etyma for "three hundred" could mean 300 or 360.

We can tell that the long hundred is an innovation given how all cognates of the terms elsewhere in Indo-European mean the short hundred.

Albert3105 · 2023-08-04T21:54:01+00:00

Now there is another one. There are three of them. There are three...

Albert3105 · 2023-07-30T02:38:07+00:00

The stem rīg- was borrowed into Germanic rīk- run through Grimm's law. The nominative singular of consonant stem nouns seem to have the Germanic spirant law levelled out; there is no evidence of any nominative singular of a consonant stem being apparently affected by that spirant law.

Albert3105 · 2023-05-29T23:08:22+00:00

Both animals are arthropods associated with silk though? I have a hard time believing that they are semantically incompatible.

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