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Sanskrit question: What sound, exactly, does the letter "ḥ" represent? How come I see it in noun declension tables in word-final position where I would expect to see "s" (and often do see "s")? Was final "s" not pronounced /s/ in Sanskrit? I'm just a little c...

I don't understand why Qwed posted it in this thread. (Not that I have any clue what all of you are talking about, but . . .) Because it's in response to something posted in the Forum News thread (which you can't post in, hence we have this thread for posting responses to it), I suppose. Now, said ...

I probably get a different audience from you. Rather than the "metalhead/nerd/edgy" demographic, my audience is the "typical Millennial/pop-rock fan/Youth Culturalist/rebel against social norms/anarchist" demographic. Mmh, yeah, that of course has something to do with it. A lot ...

I don't intend to debate the etymology of kaveri , as it's not really my field of expertise, but I did find a Swedish word kavera . In its first sense it means 'to bail out' (< Ger. kavieren < Lat. caveō ) and in its second, Finland-Swedish, sense it variously means 'to chat, to boast, to make gest...

So, according to Aszev's post in another thread, we have:

cavāre 'excavate', 'hollow out', 'perforate', 'pierce'
kaveri 'friend', 'buddy'

Is /θ/ > /ts/ possible? Finnish had this, apparently, e.g. *meθän > metsän . I found that on the Diachronica, but it looks like proto-Finnish *θ derives from earlier *ts (e.g. * meθän is from proto-Finic * meccä ). There might be a good reason for having /θ/ in the middle, but it looks a bit suspic...

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Random thoughts: I seem to do my best thinking in the shower. This morning I ended up taking a shower twice as long as I intended because I was so busy thinking about the Lihmelinyan verb system. I was even writing out verb forms in the condensation on the shower door: étan, étes, étet (I came, you...

Re. a phrase like "deceptively simple". Does this phrase mean that something is simple, but appears not to be? Or does it mean the opposite: it is complex and appears to be simple? I've heard contradictory answers on this. Good question! In my experience, it means that something appears t...

So it seems. It's kind of difficult to tell, though (at least as an occasional lurker), just what logic that place operates on these days... Although I guess one rule that fairly consistently gets enforced on pretty much any platform on the net is "don't talk back to the admin when they're cle...

No answer? [:(] I guess I will just post a new lesson and hope to get some more people interested [;)] For what it's worth, I'd like to announce that I, for one, am certainly interested. This is a rather well-written thread on a language that, as you pointed out in the first post, there's not exact...

-eerata verbs usually are loans from Swedish Well yes, but kaveerata  exists without having a clear Swedish loan original, so it's not out of the question that it could've been borrowed from some other source and simply adapted to the existing model. That being said, I think it's more likely that i...

In what positions and under what conditions did French keep morphological nominative -s, even after it lost cases? C.f. French fils . What VaptuantaDoi said. It is true that all French's retained nominative forms refer to humans. I seem to recall seeing that claimed for ours 'bear', but can't seem ...

*sighs* Well, finally got banned from the ZBB. Tempban though, right? So it seems. It's kind of difficult to tell, though (at least as an occasional lurker), just what logic that place operates on these days... Although I guess one rule that fairly consistently gets enforced on pretty much any plat...

As with Pabappa, I've never come across "velarised vowels" and would suggest that they probably don't exist, at least in the same way the velarised consonants (consonants pronounced with the back of the tongue raised up towards the velum) do. Right; back vowels are already pronounced with...

don't change words where there's no reason too currint :wat: and you missed "grately" [xD] Did I? I just thought I understood the reason why that was changed; "great" does conflict with normal English spelling rules, whereas "current", AFAICT, doesn't. But I guess I'm ...

Wel, u can wate until sum peeple "in the frunt" start using mor logical spellings to start using it, or u can be one of those peeple in the frunt who start using it. I'm one of those peeple... The problem here is that using letters, such as c and u , as words originated text speak and wil...

I'd say <i y> should be spelled <ai ay> if they are pronounced /ai/, and <a> should be spelled <ea> or <ae> if pronounced /ei/. Yea, sam piepel haev sajestid thaet wi spel inglish saunds with "cantinental" leter vaelius, olthou yu haev tu meik sam impravizeishen, for the saunds thaet igzi...

Topic merged. I'd personally be in favor of expanding the way diacritics currently âre, or have historically been, used. That is, take the way they've already been used and regularize it to mark unusual pronunciations, but keep it fairly limited; môstly to situations whêre no oħer way of regularizin...

Less on the lines of phonology, but I just wanted to share my favourite thing from up here in Yorkshire, which is the word "gizzit", a contraction of "give us it" where "us" means "(to) me" [:P] Same in Scotland! The usual written form is "gies it"....