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σκῶρ ~ σκᾰτός whoa .... i had no idea those two words were even related, let alone that they were the same word. the "-mentum" theory makes sense to me though ..... see for example how many words ending in -ma have plurals in -mata, .... and how there's a different alternation between -ma...

which reminds me of the three-way split between stops in Korean, the three-way length contrasts for both vowels and consonants in some Uralic languages, and Americanist phonetic notation's "half-voiced" series, which may be a relic of an earlier age in which we didn't quite understand the ...

when i was in my late teens, and had only irregular access to the Internet, i had a language with tonal consonants (i think 3 tones), "hard" vs "soft" which was about literal articulatory force, three sets of bilabials distinguished by lip shape, three velar series (front, middle...

if i accept "really" as an interjection, theyre all gramatical, but 5 and 8 are the worst, and the only ones where it would need to be an interjection . i do this deliberately odd placement with other words too e.g. "please", "of course", "even", sometimes to ...

Shemtov wrote: ↑20 Oct 2021 00:39 <Pháp> "France" <Fap>

okay thanks, now i DEFINITELY want to see a Polandball cartoon or something along this line .... i thought Māori calling them wīwī was the only one funny one, but now i know this.

this isnt too far off from what goes on in some of my languages, although i only have two tone patterns, not three. even so, you could have a lost -V suffix on one case but not the others, at which stage the language would have had different stress patterns depending on whether the V suffix was pres...

I was watching the original Ecco the Dolphin played out but there were some subtle changes .... it was the intro screen, where everything is seemingly happy and the world is a paradise where harmful objects are easily dealt with ..... that much was in common with the real game. There were also human...

since Im the only one in this thread arguing that the words may be related, i assume that sarcasm is aimed at me, but ... please realize that almost none of what you wrote actually pertains to what i say. of course an opinion will look ridiculous if you mash it up with five opposing and mutually con...

reminds me of Eaiea, a conlang from the 1990s thats still going .... http://www.eaiea.com/ .... however this webpage looks like it has been little touched in many years (still has a juno.com email for example) so there may be a lot you could improve on or do differently.

the low rate of lexical similarity in IE vs the other hyperborean languages could be due to IE's radical restructuring of its grammar and lexicon, such that even words for basic concepts like fire, water, animal names, etc are no longer atomic roots in PIE, but rather are derived from a root, a suff...

Why do people so often assume there were loans? It could just as well be, with such a simple concept, that the word is original to both branches of Indo-Uralic and developed according to now-lost rules, likely changing much more on the IE side than on the Uralic side, from the original root. Again, ...

I dstinctly remember hearing a young boy call out [bwaba] to his older brother while he was standing up in a shopping cart. I think its not so common nowadays, but all that matters is whether it used to be. the baby talk theory makes perfect sense to me, and parallels the use of Sissy as a girl's na...

No castles then. Or at least not enough to account for a significant share of the population. Okay, thanks. My impression had been at least since grade school that many, if not most, of the common people in medieval times lived within the walls of a castle, where they were protected from outside ene...

- by the mid-16th century, 10% of Scots lived in towns, with an average size of around 2,000 inhabitants (though many much smaller). just to clarify, when you say 10% lived in towns, does that include those living in Edinburgh and other cities as "towns"? In either case, in what type of c...

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person forms for the verb tò were: ton tòo tò I remember a snippet of an -r but Im calling this corrupt because Im pretty sure I was by this time thinking of the word tornado . The part I like is that these are believable cognates of the existing pronominal prefixes in the Tapi...

/nimi/ could be cognate to the PIE word in the assumption that /mm/ > /m/ during some stage of the long development of the PIE branch, perhaps passing through a stage in which the disappearing /-m-/ made the stem vowel rounded, which then later become reinterpreted as a laryngeal. (By that I mean, i...

There was a position in American football called nuen , theoretically pronounced as IPA /'nju:ən/ ("even in America"), but with the colloquial pronunciation /'ju:ən/ being much more common. It was a bad thing, a term for either a coach or a quarterback who didnt do their job, and all I rem...

in eastern Europe, /ponos/ can mean any of ... pride (Slovenian, Serbian, etc) pain (Greek) diarrhea (Russian) to insult (Old Church Slavonic, but with derivatives in modern languages) unpleasant consequence (Romanian) There are still other meanings in some languages but they are transparently compo...

It seems the letter ayin already had a C-like shape at least here and there throughout history, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latin_small_letter_egyptological_Ain.svg , and the Aramaic form resembling a slightly turned U. The Somali shape could be a direct borrowing from Egyptology since i...

it seems a bit of a Marysuetopia to be honest, .... you said there'd be backlash but the way you write it up suggests that everyone's behavior just happens to fall in line and there's neither any great opposition to the system nor are there people who take advantage of it. what if i kidnap someone? ...