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What does the prefix 'ab-' mean in the Latin verb 'abundare' ?
abound (v.)
early 14c., from Old French abonder "to abound, be abundant, come together in great numbers" (12c.), from Latin abundare "overflow, run over,"
from Latin ab- "off" (see ab-) + ...
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Why is Latin considered a dead language, but Old High German simply a precursor to modern German?
Or, to put it another way: If the Church hadn't preserved Latin, would it even be considered a different language from Italian as opposed to simply an older form in the development of the Italian ...
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What free objective tools can be used for assessing pronunciation?
I'm also interested in fluency and intonation.
Any insights will be wonderful.
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How to check if the first /r/ or /j/ sound is elided in "February"?
I've just learnt that there is more than one way to pronounce the word "February":
/ˈfebyuˌweri/
/ˈfebuˌweri/
/ˈfebruˌweri/
And some other variations with /u/ being reduced to schwa.
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How similar are the French and Spanish R sounds, linguistically speaking?
To preface, I'm not particularly knowledgeable about linguistics, but I did take several semesters of French and Spanish in college several years ago. I remember putting a lot of effort into learning ...
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How to pronounce Proto-Indo-European words?
I want to know how do I get to know how to pronounce proto-Indo-European words from how they are spelled currently?
I do understand that the exact pronunciation is not certain for many words, but it ...
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Is standard Arabic considered a dead language? What are the differences from Latin?
I fail to see the difference in usage between Latin and Fusha. Maybe not contemporary Latin but Latin from few centuries prior. Is Standard Arabic the most widely spoken dead language?
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Phonetic/ phonological, not orthographic, syllables of تَطْوِيْل?
Pronunciation of تَطْوِيْل (as verbal noun), is it 'tat-weel', or rather 'ta-tweel' ?
Notice the difference in syllable structure.
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Why did the Latin word marmor became French marbre (which is in present day English marble)?
I would like to know what process suffered the Latin word marmor when it was borrowed in French and became marbre. I know that the process from French marbre to English marble is dissimilation, i.e. ...
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Percentage of Latin loanwords in northern Germanic languages
What is the percentage of Latin loanwords or words that are of ultimate Latin origin even from intermediate languages in each of the northern Germanic languages? I have noticed that there seem to be ...
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Formal terms for pronunciations of loanwords in source and recipient languages?
If they exist, what are formal terms meaning "pronunciation of a loanword in the donor language" and "pronunciation of a loanword in the recipient language"? In shorter terms, the ...
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The possible sound change when /t/ sound is preceded by fricatives or affricatives
Here, I am talking about the assimilated /t/ sound that is one of the most common features of Standard Southern British English (such as /t/ at the beginning of a syllable, time, task, Twitter, twice, ...
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minimal pairs for Portuguese
Does anyone know of a list of minimal pairs for pronunciation, preferably with audio files?
So far the best I have found https://european-portuguese.info/minimalpairs but this is specific to European. ...
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Online collection of the world languages' melodic patterns?
Every language has some very typical melodic patterns and I've been wondering is there some sort of a global repository collecting and comparing such patterns?
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Why is it believed the West Germanic /i/ became /aɪ/ in some cases?
I am no study of linguistics, it is an hobby, so certainly nothing I know about in depth, but this one I do find puzzling. I understand that sometimes sounds change, this happens in English today due ...
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