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Are these Kazakh words considered borrowings (from Russian?) or onomatopoieias?
These three words are very similar in English, Russian and Kazakh. At least the Russian set is considered inherited from PIE.
English - Russian - Kazakh
crush - крушить (krushitь) - қырш (qyrsh)
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The origin of "ba" particle
In French, Italian there is a particle ba(h) which is used for exclamation of contempt, excitement, surprise etc. There's pretty similar particle բա in Armenian which is used for expressing amusent as ...
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Schwa syncope in "hundred"
My girlfriend noticed that I say when I pronounce a word like 'hundred' it sounds like I'm deleting the schwa sound in the final syllable and pronouncing the word mroe like, "hundrd". Does this fall ...
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what evidence suggests that PIE was a tone language?
I have heard this claim stated with confidence, but it's difficult to see how it could be deduced from traditional reconstruction. Same question for ancient Greek.
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Is PIE "*wank-" the ultimate root of E "wankle"?
wankle
From Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol (“unstable, unsteady, tottering, vacillating, weak”), from Proto-Germanic *wankulaz (“unsteady, wavering”), from Proto-Indo-European *...
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What is Double Zero Grade?
The double zero grade *ǵʰi-m- is preserved in the compounds with numerals.
(de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin 2013: hiems)
E.g. *dwi-ǵʰim-os “two years old”, literally “of two winters” (en....
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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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Which PIE reconstruction is currently considered to best account for the attested data?
In particular is Pyysalo's reconstruction considered to be an improvement over older reconstructions like Brugmann's?
https://helda.helsinki.fi/items/1a4d765d-2158-4ad8-8d5e-b2b32356a188
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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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Hypothetical ancestry and evolution of PGmc *auziwandliaz
This is cross-posted from r/asklinguistics, with influence from Wiktionary's Tea Room.
So I'm bundling up three questions regarding the PGmc. proper noun *Auziwandilaz.
First: The /w/ in the ...
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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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What is the term for PIE a, o > PGmc a merging?
PIE a, o > Proto-Slavic o has a name "Квантитативное выравнивание" ?quantity alignment?
Does PIE a, o > PGmc a have a special term?
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Is the Hungarian word "pirít" (to burn) a borrowing from Indo-European word for fire (*peh2wr)?
I am wondering, is it possible that the Hungarian word pirít ‘to burn’ is a relatively-recent borrowing from an Indo-European language, from *peh₂wr- ‘fire’? Obviously, it would have to happen after ...
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