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Is there a Slavic equivalent of the Greek and Latin semantic transfer from "chest/vault" to "treasure", like θησαυρός/thesaurus?
I was looking at the etymology of the Romanian word comoară ("treasure", "hoard", "pile of precious things") and it seems based on the widespread Slavic form komora, ...
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Can it be that the etymology of the Balkan root for "tickle" stretches as far as Korean?
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I am interested in the etymology of the Romanian word gâdila/gîdila ("to tickle; the â/î variation is only graphical: it's /ɨ/, the close central unrounded vowel which in ...
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Common language root for dom, domain
Earlier today I was wondering about the similarity of domain (eng), domaine (fr) and the words for home or house dom (rus), dům (cz) makes me think they have some common root, is that true? If so, ...
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Origin & explanation of sabado & sobota being similar in latin and slavic languages?
The word for Saturday in many languages both Romance (Italian, Spanish etc.) and Slavic (Russian, Polish, for example) is Sabado / Sobota - very similar words!
My personal amateur guess is that it ...
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Are Slavic languages better suited for poetry? [closed]
When I try to write a poem or some lyrics in English, I am stuck with the very strict word order and other things like articles, very repetitive usage of articles (a/an, the) that destroy the sound ...
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Do all languages with pre-positional articles have zero-articles if they don't have post-positional articles?
To clarify, pre-positional articles are the articles positioned before a noun they refer to, like English the or a(n).
Post-positional articles are those positioned after a noun they refer to, like ...
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