Languages & Linguistics

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Why is the word here "HaNofelet" and not "HaNofalet" when there's a grammatical pause?

0 answers · posted 6mo ago by Mithical‭ · edited 6mo ago by msh210‭

Hebrew

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 6mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 6mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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What is the most dominant Arabic dialect in Horn of Africa region?

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · edited 7mo ago by JohnDoea‭

Arabic

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Are Sudanic Arabic and Yemeni Arabic similar?

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by JohnDoea‭

Arabic

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭

list-of-languages

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

0 answers · posted 7mo 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 · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 7mo 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 · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 7mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 7mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 7mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Greek

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 7mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 7mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Vietnamese lệnh and Thai เลย

1 answer · posted 8mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · last activity 7mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Thai Vietnamese

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 7mo ago by Moshi‭

etymology English

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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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 · posted 1y ago by Medi1saif‭ · edited 7mo ago by Medi1saif‭

poetry

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

0 answers · posted 8mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 8mo 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 · posted 8mo ago by PSTH‭

Latin

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Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish?

2 answers · posted 11mo ago by tommi‭ · last activity 8mo 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 · posted 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 8mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English historical-linguistics dialects

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

2 answers · posted 8mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 8mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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'Caution' and 'cautious' with ʃ or ʒ?

1 answer · posted 9mo ago by msh210‭ · last activity 9mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English pronunciation sibilant intervocalic voicedness

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How does backwardation semantically relate to "backward"?

0 answers · posted 10mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 9mo ago by tommi‭

etymology English finance

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"Us neither" - Is it valid?

0 answers · posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭

English grammar

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

2 answers · posted 10mo ago by fedorqui‭ · last activity 10mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

Catalan single-word-requests

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What explains Arabic "Greater Etymology"?

0 answers · posted 1y ago by user53100‭ · edited 10mo ago by user53100‭

etymology

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Why does the dollar sign precede the number in English?

1 answer · posted 10mo ago by tommi‭ · last activity 10mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English

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Order of pronouns

1 answer · posted 10mo ago by Severus Snape‭ · last activity 10mo 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 · posted 11mo ago by fedorqui‭ · edited 10mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

Spanish Latin romance-languages evolution-of-languages

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

0 answers · posted 10mo ago by Severus Snape‭ · last activity 10mo ago by Severus Snape‭

Hindi

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Etymology of "ohyra"?

2 answers · posted 10mo ago by Lundin‭ · last activity 10mo 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 · posted 10mo ago by fedorqui‭

Spanish word-choice

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

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Jordan‭

semantics

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Why is my Danglish pronunciation much better than Danish?

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by tommi‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Jordan‭

English pronunciation Danish

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Why word future events in the present?

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by msh210‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English

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

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 11mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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How can a prepositional phrase shift to become a verb?

2 answers · posted 11mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 11mo ago by msh210‭

etymology French Latin

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

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by Peter‭ · edited 11mo ago by msh210‭

Dutch

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

1 answer · posted 12mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology particular-word

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What semantic notions underlie 'privity' with 'privity of contract'?

0 answers · posted 11mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 11mo ago by Moshi‭

etymology English legal-language

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

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English particular-word

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Does Japanese have pronouns?

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by curiousdannii‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Moshi‭

Japanese pronouns typology

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Etymology of "son of a gun"

1 answer · posted 11mo ago by hkotsubo‭ · edited 11mo ago by hkotsubo‭

etymology English

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

2 answers · posted 12mo ago by Nathaniel‭ · last activity 11mo 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 · posted 11mo ago by curiousdannii‭ · last activity 11mo ago by Conrado‭

list-of-languages pronouns natural-gender grammaticalization

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Why are kinship terms typical examples of inalienablity but not meronomy?

0 answers · posted 11mo ago by curiousdannii‭ · edited 11mo ago by curiousdannii‭

semantics possession kinship-terms

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