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Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:30 pm
by holbuzvala
lucubrate/ lucubration - to work earnestly or labouriously, as by candlelight.
Related to Latin 'lux', and 'lucubro'.
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:51 pm
by 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
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:27 am
by 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".
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 3:59 pm
by Vijay
Vijay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:51 pmവിരോധാഭാസം [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
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:05 pm
by 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
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 1:38 pm
by jal
"lanyard" - I don't think I've ever encountered it before.
JAL
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:05 pm
by Linguoboy
jal wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 1:38 pm"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.
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:26 pm
by Kuchigakatai
Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:05 pmjal wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 1:38 pm"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.
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:55 am
by jal
Ser wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:26 pmID 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
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:27 am
by Vijay
jal wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 1:38 pm"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)
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:46 pm
by 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?
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 5:40 pm
by 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.
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 6:06 pm
by Travis B.
Ser wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:46 pm
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.
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:22 pm
by Ryusenshi
Doesn't
the runs mean the same thing?
Ser wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:46 pm
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!".
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:17 pm
by Vijay
Ryusenshi wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2020 7:22 pmDoesn't
the runs mean the same thing?
Yes, but it's not vulgar (unlike
the shits), just slang.
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:15 pm
by Nortaneous
Ser wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:46 pm
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
Re: Words You've Learned Recently
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 10:16 am
by 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".