English juice, French jus 'juice' < Latin iūs 'gravy, sauce, broth'
Spanish jugo 'juice' < Old Spanish xugo < Latin sūcus 'juice'
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- 09 Feb 2024 05:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325654
- 17 Dec 2023 06:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 283005
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I read the Wikipedia article about Hebrew. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language "4-consonant roots also exist and became more frequent in the modern language due to a process of coining verbs from nouns that are themselves constructed from 3-consonant verbs." How does this work...
- 24 Aug 2023 09:38
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325654
Re: False cognates
English and
Tagdal ənda 'and, with'
Tagdal ənda 'and, with'
- 17 Aug 2023 12:58
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Word Order In Natlangs
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12403
Re: Word Order In Natlangs
[*]In some languages (e.g. German, Yoruba, Latin) , certain words, e.g. German 'aber' but, can occur in a prosodically determined position instead of the word order expected purely on grounds of dependencies or constituent structures. Wait, could you expand on that? [is this a relic of Wackernagel'...
- 15 Aug 2023 06:31
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: A New IE Origin Theory
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10017
Re: A New IE Origin Theory
Regarding glottochronology, I thought it was amusing to hear someone recently point out: why was it taken seriously by anyone when languages as exotic as Latin > French vs. Italian disprove it? (Even if we limit "Italian" to the "natural" dialects of Tuscan, the point stands.) It...
- 15 Aug 2023 05:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Keenir's script scratchpad
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2402
Re: Keenir's script scratchpad
I like how you casually just continued a thread from 2015. Man, I miss clawgrip.
Your 2023 script is much more, uh, esoteric (if I may say) and maybe less practical than your previous conscript...
Your 2023 script is much more, uh, esoteric (if I may say) and maybe less practical than your previous conscript...
- 29 Jul 2023 08:28
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: What is grammar?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9281
Re: What is grammar?
Hello! It's been a bit since I posted here. I'm still working on that same lang from a while back, and I've realized something: I don't think I know much about cross-linguistic grammar. Usually, I would lean towards a feature common in, say, an Indo-European language. I'd prefer not to do this, and...
- 18 Jun 2023 17:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Where to post your word pairs [guide]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10733
Re: Where to post your word pairs
I thought it was a fun chart , partly because the issue is pretty minor.
- 18 Jun 2023 17:04
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325654
Re: False cognates
Ge'ez ውርዙት wərzut 'youth, adolescence; manhood, maturity' (derived from ወርዘወ warzawa 'to become a young man; to mature; to act with courage')
Latin virtūtem 'courage, heroism; glory; manhood; virtue, moral worth' (derived from vir 'man')
Latin virtūtem 'courage, heroism; glory; manhood; virtue, moral worth' (derived from vir 'man')
- 18 Jun 2023 16:49
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 283005
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
However, I don't know whether the irregular initial stress is common enough, or sufficiently related to word class, to qualify here. The irregular initial stress on término 'term' is quite odd and not common. And I'd say it exists at all due to it being adapted/adopted from Latin, that is it's a la...
- 28 May 2023 23:53
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Conlang documentation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14184
Re: Conlang documentation
here the link condemns, as I often do, bilingual lists, which neglect what makes a language what it is, the unique semantic fields... the number of entries does not limit the risk of relex... this type of list encourages you to match an entry in one language with an entry in a conlang, and therefor...
- 22 May 2023 22:32
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Conlang documentation
- Replies: 20
- Views: 14184
Re: Conlang documentation
So how do you all document your languages? Do you etch them into stone walls? Transport your data mentally through hyperspace? If any of you have ideas I like, I might incorporate them into my document ─ this is already version 1.8. This is a place where we all differ, and thus an opportunity to le...
- 20 May 2023 19:33
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: If natlangs were conlangs
- Replies: 150
- Views: 110115
Re: If natlangs were conlangs
...That doesn't seem ridiculous to me? Dropping /j/ or /w/ in the context C_V seems pretty normal, especially if it's /j/ after a coronal. Consider Latin battuere > Italian battere, or Middle Chinese 張 pronounced something like *[ʈʂjɐŋ] > Mandarin zhāng [ʈʂɑŋ].
- 20 May 2023 19:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Where and how can I describe and document languages?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8237
Re: Where and how can I describe and document languages?
Not sure how it is with universities vs. Christian missionary organizations, but they seem similar in terms of activity, in fact the Christians might be more involved in it even. So you can be a Christian missionary if you don't want to go the university route. [xD] Alternatively, if you live in a w...
- 29 Apr 2023 17:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False cognates
- Replies: 902
- Views: 325654
Re: False cognates
Azerbaijani qaqaş 'bro, mate'
Persian کاکا kākā 'elder brother, uncle'
Mandarin 哥哥 gēge 'elder brother'
Georgian გოგო gogo 'girl'
Manchu ᡤᡝᡤᡝ gege 'princess'
Persian کاکا kākā 'elder brother, uncle'
Mandarin 哥哥 gēge 'elder brother'
Georgian გოგო gogo 'girl'
Manchu ᡤᡝᡤᡝ gege 'princess'
- 23 Apr 2023 04:54
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 283005
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Are there any natlangs that make distinctions between pronouns for 'speaker + 2 listeners' vs. 'speaker + listener + non-listener'? Like with an extra clusivity distinction? I think some* of the contributors to WALS.info have published one or more articles or books saying so! *(Anna Siewierska, or ...
- 15 Apr 2023 14:22
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
My understanding is though that it's somewhat 'unnatural'/rare that demonstratives and posessive/personal pronouns are somehow related. It's common when it comes to 3rd person pronouns, in the direction of demonstratives becoming 3rd person pronouns (e.g. Latin ipse / ille and the descendants into ...
- 08 Apr 2023 17:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Overcoming the first hurdle
- Replies: 13
- Views: 876
Re: Overcoming the first hurdle
I wonder if there are people on this forum that overcame this issue, because it seems like a lot of us have this in common. Well, I've been conlanging for 15 years (oof, how time flies by!), and personally I've basically given up on ever making anything longer than a sketch. I'm okay at making a 30...
- 07 Apr 2023 23:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1679
- Views: 348005
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Hi, I have a question about a feature in one of my conlangs. This language has two separate genitive cases; one which is used when the possessee is masculine, and one which is used when the possessee is feminine. The thing is, I am almost certain this is ANADEW and I have been looking online for si...
- 06 Apr 2023 05:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1111
- Views: 283005
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Where do VSO languages usually position short adverbs like soon, again, unfortunately ... ? Is "unfortunately" a short adverb? [:D] For what it's worth, Standard Arabic places "soon" at the end, places its adverbial equivalents of "again" at the end as well (literally ...