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uncodnitional coda /u/ > /v~f/ happenedi n Greek, but some of thw words, like Zeus becoming /zefs/ , are loans from Ancient Gk .... the inherited form of that name is in fact días (Δίας).

lek means a mating place for birds or another animals, russian has tok with a similar meaning. (unless the Russian word is just a variant sense of one of the others.) thats all i have for now, but osme of my posts on the other thread could also fit here since e.g. "teddy bear" is not such...

i dont usually post this type of dream since there arent any real new elements but its been a while so... 1a) I was in school expecting a math test, but when I went into the classroom, I didnt recognize the students and came to realize I was in the wrong class and that my test was tomorrow. Thus, I ...

I thought I remembered reading that liver was just live + er, but neither wiktionary nor etymonline gives that, though wikt says they at least might be cogs.

It's Stefan Zimmer, not Klaus T Zimmer. Also, are we sure this is not an elaborate April fools joke? I dont read LL

biopic My favorite. I dont think Ive ever said the word out loud either, but Ive heard both pronuncations. When I heard /baɪˈɔp.ɪk/ from an announcer on satellite radio once, i went to wiktionary to see if it was accepted and saw that it was. i proposed a folk etymology that its from bio- "lif...

I emailed a professor in S Africa once and he said even the scholars don't know. Your guess is as good as mine, but there are enough of us here that we can probably help you find an idea you can work with.

Oh, perhaps I should mention that the hyper-feministic societies on Teppala are stable because women are taller than men. There is no magic involved, although they share a religion with female angels and other beings that have supernatural powers. This is actually not a bad way to get around it. (P...

there are no perfect orthographies, because if there were such a thing, the language would never be able to evolve without ruining it. i would use your solution, though, with the velar glide standing for /Ø/, if you cant just leave it blank. korean does something similar i think. edit: yeah, korean ...

I should very much like to learn more about these ideas of yours...are they on-site? If not, might they be in the future? Not as much as I thought there was. http://www.frathwiki.com/Proto-Moonshine_culture#Postwar_reforms_in_Moonshine_territory http://www.frathwiki.com/Moonshine_Ethnographical_Que...

You missed your chance...couldve removed it for April fools day and then brought it back today

Thank you! I'm a fan. Is the resemblance of the proto-language to Inuit on purpose? The Dialect 17 sample looks like it could be Uralic ... is this meant to evoke the sounds of the Arctic in general? I like the idea of a cold climate culture whose languages sound in one place like Inuktitut, in anot...

*karu, *kərawə "fire, pyre" *nešə, *nəšekə "coastal island, often from erosion" > *nešəkaru, *nešəkərawə "lighthouse" (anachronistic) Do those commas mark alternate forms, or is it a paradigm like in Latin? Next: monkey, primate Poswa: One species of monkey is called p...

Wiktionary says that the Scandinavian words for juniper are originally loans from Latin.... https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/einir#Old_Norse But if so the loss of the final syllable seems irregular .

Completely unrelated: Are there direct or indirect loanwords from Latin in Modern Greek, and if so, how many? i think so, yes. Greek tries its hardest to come up with new words out of native stock ... panepistimio etc ,,,, but has some loans from Latin that came in at a time when they werent as pro...

I like it, it looks like you put a lot of research into learning about allophones. The /n/ without /m/ makes me think of Basque, but in other ways it looks very different.

Thanks for the replies but IM still not convinced. THis is for a conlang so its not of great importance, but i figured there would at least be a name for what Im seeing. i dont see any reason to consider ka a bound morpheme, since it is etymologically derived from a freestanding morpheme, and it's e...

i dont see any reason to consider ka a bound morpheme, since it is etymologically derived from a freestanding morpheme, and it's even still written with a kanji, unlike inflections. (the word means "house" apparently. Odd, but senses can evolve, i guess.) It seems that it simply changes it...

So there's no special term? I'd think there would be a way to describe terms that only appear in compounds... sort of the inverse of a cranberry morpheme. But I'll let it go unless someone else has heard of such a term, thanks for replying .

I don't know the history...I'm just curious what to call that morpheme as it is used today. Unlike a tradl bound morpheme such as -ist, it has a separate etymological history as a free morpheme.