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[holbuzvala]

lucubrate/ lucubration - to work earnestly or labouriously, as by candlelight.

Related to Latin 'lux', and 'lucubro'.

[Vijay]

I guess I should post in the thread that I myself started in the old forum, right?

വിരോധം [ʋiˈɾoːd̪ʱəm] - enmity, ill will, animosity, harm, hostile attitude, objection, prohibition, war, danger
ആഭാസം [aːˈbʱaːsəm] - luster, vulgarity, image, likeness, resemblance
വിരോധാഭാസം [ʋiɾoːd̪ʱaːˈbʱaːsəm] - irony

[Kuchigakatai]

Maori mangōroa 'the Milky Way', from mangō 'shark' and roa 'long'.

Nukuoro dau dinae, glossed in Carroll and Soulik's Nukuoro Lexicon (1973) as "a period during which many women are pregnant at the same time".

[Vijay]

വിരോധാഭാസം [ʋiɾoːd̪ʱaːˈbʱaːsəm] - irony

Heh, I just realized I posted this in the middle of a long list of words on the old forum. Oh, the വിരോധാഭാസം

Not this word, though! This is new:

പരിണാമം [pəɾiˈɳaːməm] - evolution

[Vijay]

അണ്ണാക്ക് [əɳˈɳaːkɯ] - palate (I'm guessing മേലണ്ണാക്ക് [meːləɳˈɳaːkɯ], literally 'upper palate', means 'hard palate'?)
ഊന് [ˈuːnɯ] - gums
സ്വാഗതമോതുക [ˈsʋaːgəd̪əˈmoːd̪uga] - to welcome (possibly a neologism? Doesn't seem to be a very common word and only gets 32 ghits)
വ്യാപാരം [ʋjaːˈbaːɾəm] - commerce

[jal]

"lanyard" - I don't think I've ever encountered it before.


JAL

[Linguoboy]

"lanyard" - I don't think I've ever encountered it before.

I wouldn't know what to call it in any other language. We didn't really talk about them until we had to start wearing employee IDs.

[Kuchigakatai]

"lanyard" - I don't think I've ever encountered it before.

I wouldn't know what to call it in any other language. We didn't really talk about them until we had to start wearing employee IDs.

ID lanyards are cordones (masc.: el cordón) or less commonly correas (fem.) in Spanish.

[jal]

ID lanyards are cordones (masc.: el cordón) or less commonly correas (fem.) in Spanish.

I think in Dutch we call them "keycord" or "nekband" or whatever. Though "lanyard" seems to be able to refer to any kind of strap, not just for hanging IDs.


JAL

[Vijay]

"lanyard" - I don't think I've ever encountered it before.

Me neither!

കരാർ [kəˈɾaːr] - agreement, condition, contract, pact
അഭിവൃദ്ധി [əbʱiˈʋrɯd̪d̪ʱi] - great increase, prosperity, progress, betterment
ഉപായം [uˈbaːjəm] - means to achieve an end, scheme, trick cunning, one of the four tactics to win over an enemy, tactics, contrivance, device
രേഖ [ˈɾeːkʰa] - writing, letter, document, record, boundary, fraud, longitude (also means 'line' or 'row', but I'm more familiar with those two meanings)

[Kuchigakatai]

I was thinking about my recent mention of French la foire, a vulgar word for 'diarrhea' (another such word is la chiasse), when I realized that Salvadoran Spanish also has a couple vulgar words for "diarrhea": la churria and la churrutaca (which I imagine are partly chosen for their sound symbolism), and, less obscenely, there's also el pringapié and el curso. (I'd say pringapié has some folksy connotations, but curso is very common, to the point of being practically a register-neutral term.)

This made me wonder if English had any such words. I don't think North American English does? But I found that people in the UK can say "the squits". Does anyone use "the trots" and does it have any vulgar or obscene connotations?

[Pabappa]

I can only think of the joke:

Q: What do you call a vegetarian with diarrhea?
A: A salad shooter.

But that doesnt really count, because without that setup, nobody would understand what you were talking about.

Once I said "I spilled myself", but that wouldnt make sense without context either. I dont think Ive ever heard any euphemism for "diarrhea" at all, actually. even Calvin & Hobbes used the word "diarrhea" once, which surprised me.

[Travis B.]

I was thinking about my recent mention of French la foire, a vulgar word for 'diarrhea' (another such word is la chiasse), when I realized that Salvadoran Spanish also has a couple vulgar words for "diarrhea": la churria and la churrutaca (which I imagine are partly chosen for their sound symbolism), and, less obscenely, there's also el pringapié and el curso. (I'd say pringapié has some folksy connotations, but curso is very common, to the point of being practically a register-neutral term.)

This made me wonder if English had any such words. I don't think North American English does? But I found that people in the UK can say "the squits". Does anyone use "the trots" and does it have any vulgar or obscene connotations?

The term that comes to mind in English is the shits, which specifically is a vulgar term for diarrhea.

[Ryusenshi]

Doesn't the runs mean the same thing?

I was thinking about my recent mention of French la foire, a vulgar word for 'diarrhea'

IMD the word foire doesn't mean "diarrhea" at all, but mostly "a fair, a fest" (foire=fair and foire=diarrhea are apparently unrelated). Colloquially, "foire" can also mean "a mess", but I thought it was because fairs can be messy. There are derived words that are connected to this meaning: foirer = to screw up; enfoiré = bastard, asshole.

In fact, I first saw the meaning "diarrhea" when I read Gargantua by Rabelais, a 16th century novel. It was a lightbulb moment "oh, that's where enfoiré comes from!".

[Vijay]

Doesn't the runs mean the same thing?

Yes, but it's not vulgar (unlike the shits), just slang.

[Nortaneous]

Does anyone use "the trots" and does it have any vulgar or obscene connotations?

Yes, but it's a little archaic (as in Boomers) and only mildly vulgar

[Linguoboy]

For St Piran's Day I memorised the lyrics to Gwenno's "Tir ha Mor" ("Land and Sea"). Words without obvious cognates in Welsh were:

howldrevel sunrise
howlsedhes sunset
efan vast
nija fly

I also didn't recognise tonsya as a cognate of Welsh dawnsio "dance".