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How did « re » + « partir » compound to "repartee", which means "rejoinder"?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 24 hours ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology particular-word
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What semantic notions underlie 'privity' with 'privity of contract'?

0 answers  ·  last activity 2 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology English legal-language
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Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish?

1 answer  ·  last activity 2 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Finnish children
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How can a prepositional phrase shift to become a verb?

0 answers  ·  last activity 3 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology French Latin
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How did 'equity' semantically shift to mean 'Assets — Liabilities'?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English particular-word
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Why was Spanish the only Romance language to loose the initial "F" in Latin words?

0 answers  ·  last activity 12 days ago by fedorqui‭

Spanish Latin evolution-of-languages romance-languages
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Why is my Danglish pronunciation much better than Danish?

0 answers  ·  last activity 13 days ago by tommi‭

English pronunciation Danish
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Does Japanese have pronouns?

1 answer  ·  last activity 16 days ago by Moshi‭

Japanese pronouns typology
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Etymology of "son of a gun"

1 answer  ·  last activity 16 days ago by hkotsubo‭

etymology English
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What does "se" mean in Micah 6:8, "Ya se te ha declarado..."?

2 answers  ·  last activity 16 days ago by DonielF‭

Spanish
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Are there any examples of neopronouns for non-binary or third gender people being fully incorporated into a language's grammar?

2 answers  ·  last activity 17 days ago by Conrado‭

list-of-languages pronouns natural-gender grammaticalisation
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Why are kinship terms typical examples of inalienablity but not meronomy?

0 answers  ·  last activity 17 days ago by curiousdannii‭

semantics possession kinship-terms
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How did 'consideration' shift to signify grounds and the act of deliberation, then inducer of a grant or promise?

1 answer  ·  last activity 18 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology English particular-word
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What drives the complexity of a language?

1 answer  ·  last activity 21 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics
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～ません versus ～ないです

2 answers  ·  last activity 22 days ago by Moshi‭

Japanese verb-conjugation
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Why is the ـً in "شُكْرًا" and others pronounced?

1 answer  ·  last activity 22 days ago by user53100‭

Arabic pronunciation dialects
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Why do certain Hebrew letters have alternate final forms?

1 answer  ·  last activity 24 days ago by Moshi‭

Hebrew orthography
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How did "re" + "join" semantically compound to mean "riposte"?

0 answers  ·  last activity 24 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology English French particular-word
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How did 'the better to —' semantically shift to mean 'So as to — better'?

0 answers  ·  last activity 24 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology English
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Is Swedish more conservative than Danish and Norwegians?

2 answers  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics Swedish Norwegian Danish
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Why are there different suffixes for people of different countries in English?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by Moshi‭

English suffix
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What does "unused root" mean?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by msh210‭

Hebrew etymology
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Recent literature on Arabic "Greater Etymology"

0 answers  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by user53100‭

etymology Arabic
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Is "estar de buenas" a widespread way to say "to be in a good mood"?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 1 month ago by fedorqui‭

Spanish
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Why no "to"-infinitive in pual and huf'al?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Hebrew conjugation
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Icelandic patronymic pronunciation

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Lundin‭

Icelandic
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What is the Thai word for plurally numerical answer expectancy?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Thai number
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Using adjectives that are related to taste for describing emotions

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology
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What is the origin (etymology) of the word مسدس (pistol)?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Moshi‭

etymology Arabic
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Why is linguistics limited in how much it can look back in time?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics
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What is "these gentry" in Marxist writing?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English particular-word
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Has Japanese always had the polite "masu" form?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics Japanese
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How do linguists determine historical pronunciation?

1 answer  ·  last activity about 2 months ago by Moshi‭

historical-linguistics pronunciation
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Primary clause uses singular, subordinate co-reference is plural, what verb to use in English?

1 answer  ·  last activity 2 months ago by Moshi‭

English grammar number
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Why is “timbre” pronounced “tamber”?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by user8078‭

etymology English pronunciation
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How do Chinese people give their names in Japanese? (And vice versa)

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Aidan‭

Chinese Mandarin Japanese names translation
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Structures like "skulle gjort" and "skulle gjøre"

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Lundin‭

verbs Norwegian
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Which spelling -if any- of ar-Rahmaan is more correct "الرحمن" or "الرحمان"?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by DecapitatedSoul‭

Arabic orthography
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Why "sommaren är kommen" rather than "sommaren har kommit"?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Lundin‭

Swedish
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Does English support three-word contractions?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by shpielmeister‭

English contractions
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Does al-Asma'i's poem "صوت صفير البلبل" (the sound of the whistle of the bulbul) has a story to tell?

0 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Medi1saif‭

Arabic poetry
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How do I pronounce historical French correctly from times when the language was in transition?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by user8078‭

historical-linguistics pronunciation French
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What is the Arabic "praise/censure grammar" (e.g. ！ياله من رجل رائع) called in Arabic?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Medi1saif‭

Arabic grammar
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Is it really true that all Chinese words have one syllable?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by Sigma‭

Chinese
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When do you use 'whom'?

1 answer  ·  last activity 3 months ago by msh210‭

English
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Why is it "pronunciation" and not "pronounciation"?

2 answers  ·  last activity 3 months ago by DecapitatedSoul‭

English conjugation
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Is there a difference between when I should use "אוטו" vs "רכב"?

2 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by JohnDoea‭

Hebrew vocabulary
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How were ת & ט pronounced historically?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by msh210‭

Hebrew historical-linguistics pronunciation
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What determines the present-tense form of a kal verb?

0 answers  ·  last activity 4 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

Hebrew conjugation
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Whence אֶת between partners' names?

1 answer  ·  last activity 4 months ago by David‭

Hebrew etymology
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