I checked Swedish word "lä", and dictionary gave Finnish word "lee", which must be a Swedish loan. I've never heard it. They seem to mean some kind of 'heaven'. Apparently it's lee in English as well! Its core meaning is 'place where there is no wind, shelter from wind'. In Finnish it appears to be...

I haven't taken the time to read through this thread yet, but I wanted to say thank you for making it. I look forward to learning something when I finally get around to it!

Is this thread for discussing what linguistic books I have been reading? For such books and book-like things, and journal articles etc., especially ; but also for any sort of literature, whether fiction or non-fiction, peer-refereed or not, linguistics or not. That’s my understanding, at least. Thi...

Thanks for all the info! I have another(unrelated) question: There are traits that are correlated with various word orders (SOV langs are usually head final, with postpositions, and are exclusively suffixing.) What traits are common with the other orders like SVO and VSO? http://aveneca.com/cbb/vie...

Could anyone link me to a resource on Proto Norse and/or Proto Germanic language? I need phonology, grammar and lexicon if they're available. I honestly just look at Wikipedia and Wiktionary for the most part. Wikipedia is pretty bad for Proto Norse. It lists mostly generalities. I'm doing my own r...

This is the first time I've heard about to the xth power. My new knowledge of the day, I suppose.

In Swedish it's more reminiscent of German, x² is x upphöjt till två, i.e. 'x raised/lifted up to two'.

This is relevant to your points 2 and 3.

Top 5 word-initial phonemes: /s, k, g, i, r/ I find it interesting that your top initial phonemes are all present in the name of your conlang - griuskant . When I checked the frequencies of my own lexicon, many years ago, I recall that something like 5 out of 7 of the top phonemes were also present...

Does anybody know where the Polish family name Chaś comes from? And was it carried by any Polish Jews? According to this site: Chaś - od hasać ‘skakać’ lub od niemieckiej nazwy osobowej Has. Google translates this as: "from the password 'jump' or from the German personal name Has." But you'd probab...

English Ferris wheel (from the person G.W.G. Ferris)

Swe/Dan/Nor pariserhjul (from the city of Paris)

Like the way "liberal" means libertarian in Europe, but refers to someone on the anterior top left of a Vosem Chart (socially permissive, favoring Big Government on fiscal issues, against corporate personhood) in the U.S.? I thought it was more the other way around When talking ideology, I generall...

I get the impression that this has replaced the IRC channel as the de facto CBB chatroom, so I'm stickying this thread instead.

Omzinesý wrote: ↑

Thu 31 May 2018, 13:56

Finns det nån skillnad mellan "jo" och "ja"?

Ja är ett positivt svar på en positiv fråga, jo är ett positivt svar på en negativ fråga

—Är du här? —Ja, jag är här.
—Är du inte här? —Jo, jag är här.

Here's my answer, using ixals' numbers: 1/2/3/4+5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16 skʰaul.diː skʰlot.tiː 5/6/7/8/9/10+11/12/13/14/15/16 skʰalˈdiː skʰlɔtˈtiː 11/12/13/14+15/16 skʰalˈdiː skʰlɔtˈtiː 15+16 skʰəlˈtiː skʰrɔˈtiː 15 ɕcʰuˈθiː ɕkʰrɔˈθiː 16 skʰiːˈtɕiː ʂʈʂɔˈtɕiː 11/12+13/14 kʰarˈdiː kʰjatˈtiː 13+14...

Solution: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a de...

A Romance structural false friend, that took quite some time for me to get used to: In Catalan, you form the preterite by using anar 'to go' + infinitive, which mirrors the future construction found in so many other Romance languages. C ATALAN va parlar 's/he spoke' S PANISH va a hablar 's/he will s...

Hominid wrote: ↑

Thu 15 Feb 2018, 00:46

Obviously IPA should probably be left alone since it's universally recognized, but if you could make your own version of it, what would it be like?

I feel like this relates to so many of the discussions fueled by our common interest here

Apparently Irish and Scottish Gaelic fáilte/fàilte 'welcome' are cognate with English well and will (which are also cognate with each other)!

Evet! Vikipedi, Türk dilde beş bin Fransız kelimenin olduğunu söyledi. Onların nazal ünlüyi Türkçe’ye uyarladıklar gibi en çok hoşuma gidiyor: Yes! Wikipedia said that there are five thousand French words in the Turkish language. How they adapted the nasal vowels to the Turkish language is what I l...

VALENCIAN/CATALAN
Nadal 'Christmas'