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The study of the history of words including their origins and the changes they've undergone through time.
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Can we use etymology to determine the nature of synchronic semantic and morphosyntactic diff...
Etymology can strongly inform us of how things changed, and point to extra connections (cf. Spanish encinto and Italian incinto, pointing to a perceived connection between pregnancy and rope/noose). …
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Why does purple mean red in some places?
I'd say that the use of the modern English purple has shifted somewhat toward the violet side of the "line of purples" from its Latin origin purpura. This shows how English purple has generalised with …
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Before being borrowed by Europeans, was "hurricane" ever pronounced with an initial "f"?
From this book in Asturian:
D'una voz indíxena americana HURAKAN que'l cast. huracán fexo llegar al fr. ouragan y al it. uragano (REW s.v. hurakan). L'ast., lo mesmo que'l port. furacão, gall. furacá …
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To what extent has Middle Chinese been reconstructed?
First off, 1000 CE would be the very early Song dynasty (the Northern Song 北宋) in China, with the Liao (遼朝) / Khitan state still holding sway in the northern regions. The capital of the Song in this p …
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"She" and "they" in West Germanic languages
The evidence seems to point to a simple phonological merger.
Looking at the various points of data across Germanic, the /s/ in the feminine 3rd person singular is quite old (vs front vowels in the m …
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Mechanism(s) as to how the pronunciations of「也」and its Old Chinese "homophones"/phonetically...
Ultimately, this question boils down to "How are these Old Chinese syllables reconstructed to be so similar when even their Middle Chinese reflexes are quite different?"
One thing to state is that pho …
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Which of 可爱/可愛い was exported to the other between Chinese and Japanese?
Hence the etymology of the かわいい is probably derived from something else, despite the similarity of the 音読み on'yomi of 可 (か) and 愛 (あい) to かわい. … Wiktionary has an alternative to the straightforward "Classical Chinese to Japanese loan" etymology, one that is borne out by 語源由来辞典 (Gogen Yurai Jiten)'s entry. …
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Can it be that the etymology of the Balkan root for "tickle" stretches as far as Korean?
In Korean, 간지럼 ganjireom is the noun referring to a sensation of feeling 'ticklish' but also 'itchy'; the verbal adjective / descriptive verb 간지럽다 ganjireopda is its basic lemma form.
The related verb …
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Origin of ratchasap/ราชาศัพท์ phenomenon in Thai and/or Tai-kadai languages
ราชาศัพท์ raa-chaa-sàp itself is a Pali-derived word, ราชา raa-chaa (राज rājā "king, monarch") + ศัพท์ sàp (originally from Sanskrit शब्द śabda "word"); hence, "Royal Language". However, it is commonl …
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