Languages & Linguistics

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How did “negotiable” mean “a good or security whose ownership is easily transferable”?

0 answers · last activity about 13 hours ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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What spoken human languages in 2021 don't salute with words related to health or peace?

0 answers · last activity about 14 hours ago by PSTH‭

list-of-languages

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Why do the most spoken human languages in 2021 greet with words related to health or peace?

0 answers · last activity about 14 hours ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How did “a pesar de” signify “in spite of”?

0 answers · last activity about 14 hours ago by PSTH‭

etymology Spanish

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How did "join issue" mean ‘jointly submit a disputed matter to the decision of the court’?

1 answer · last activity 4 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology legal-language

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How did "put under" shift to signify "cause to take the place of", then "enough"?

1 answer · last activity 5 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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Why “chose” in action? Why not “right/droit” in action?

1 answer · last activity 11 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology legal-language

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How did 'quibus?' shift to mean 'evasion of a point at issue'?

1 answer · last activity 12 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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Please expound and simplify the semantic progression behind "reduce"?

0 answers · last activity 12 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How did kúklos ("circular") shift to signify "general"?

1 answer · last activity 13 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Greek

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How did 'solicit' semantically shift to signify ‘manage affairs’?

0 answers · last activity 13 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Why are service or maintenance contracts called 'warranties', when they aren't Legal Warranties?

1 answer · last activity 14 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English

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How does "drive out" shift to signify "weigh out"?

0 answers · last activity 16 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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What's the Semantic Field of puto?

0 answers · last activity 16 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did "represent" semantically shift to signify "standing in the place of another"?

0 answers · last activity 17 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did 'folding back' semantically shift to mean 'reply'?

0 answers · last activity 17 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How can "lemma" be translated as "rede-ship" with merely Germanic etymons?

0 answers · last activity 17 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Vietnamese lệnh and Thai เลย

1 answer · last activity 21 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Thai Vietnamese

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What did the etymons of “on by + out, over, up” mean?

0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Expound and simplify the "semantic progression" behind "must"?

0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by Moshi‭

etymology English

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How does the notion of “in defiance of” signify “notwithstanding”?

0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How does "happening" appertain to "(be)falling"?

0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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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 23 days ago by Medi1saif‭

poetry

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How did "as" amass all its confusing "broad and vague meanings"?

1 answer · last activity 24 days ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English particular-word

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How can "in terms of" substitute for such prepositions as "at, by, as, or for"?

0 answers · last activity 29 days ago by Moshi‭

English semantics

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How do Latin etymons that end in English in *-tion* nearly always name a process?

0 answers · last activity 30 days ago by PSTH‭

Latin

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Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish?

2 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by ugo‭

Finnish children

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What is the origin of the missing "to be" in sentences like "the car needs washed"?

1 answer · last activity about 1 month ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English historical-linguistics dialects

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How did 'less than' semantically shift to mean 'if not'?

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

etymology

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'Caution' and 'cautious' with ʃ or ʒ?

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

English pronunciation sibilant intervocalic voicedness

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How does backwardation semantically relate to "backward"?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by tommi‭

etymology English finance

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"Us neither" - Is it valid?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by Moshi‭

English grammar

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What is a good translation for "waypoint" into Catalan?

2 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Peter Taylor‭

Catalan single-word-requests

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How did “-able” semantically shift to mean “requiring”?

2 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Peter Taylor‭

etymology English accounting

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What explains Arabic "Greater Etymology"?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by user53100‭

etymology

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Why does the dollar sign precede the number in English?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English

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Order of pronouns

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by Severus Snape‭

English grammar pronouns

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Why was Spanish the only Romance language to lose the initial "F" in Latin words?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by ArtOfCode‭

Spanish Latin romance-languages evolution-of-languages

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Why do only certain letters have an ending form in Hebrew? [closed]

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

Hebrew

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Difference between Hindi verbs that ends with "a", "e" and "i"

0 answers · last activity 4 months ago by Severus Snape‭

Hindi

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Etymology of "ohyra"?

2 answers · last activity 4 months ago by tommi‭

etymology Swedish

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Should we use "por que" or "porque" in "las autoridades se sentían estafadas *por que* se escaparan"?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by fedorqui‭

Spanish word-choice

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How can a problem or puzzle be analogized as a knot?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Jordan‭

semantics

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Why is my Danglish pronunciation much better than Danish?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Jordan‭

English pronunciation Danish

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Why word future events in the present?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English

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What semantic notions underlie "gasket" with "little gird, maidservant"?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How can a prepositional phrase shift to become a verb?

2 answers · last activity 4 months ago by msh210‭

etymology French Latin

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What is the difference between 'u heeft' and 'u hebt'?

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by msh210‭

Dutch

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

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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