Languages & Linguistics

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What is the difference between a guild and a lodge?

1 answer · posted 2mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · last activity 2mo ago by gmcgath‭

English

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Malay languages or Indonesian languages --- which is more close to Philippine languages?

1 answer · posted 3mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · last activity 3mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Malayo-Polynesian-languages

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Linguistics of categorization

1 answer · posted 3mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · edited 3mo ago by JohnDoea‭

plurality categorization nouns

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'videlicet': How did “it is permissible to see” semantically shift to signify “to wit, namely”?

0 answers · posted 2mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 2mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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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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Is it true to say that Lao script is a simplified version of the Thai script?

1 answer · posted 5mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · last activity 5mo ago by JohnDoea‭

orthography Thai Lao

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Why didn't the same one (ancestor) language preponderate over China, Japan, Korea?

1 answer · posted 4mo ago by VLDR‭ · last activity 4mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics

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Is it correct to use `Had I had it?`

0 answers · posted 3mo ago by Istiak‭

English

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How to use the soft sign (Ь)?

0 answers · posted 3mo ago by Mark Giraffe‭

pronunciation Russian letter

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How did « histoire », in « histoire de/que », semantically shift to signify "in order to/that"?

1 answer · posted 10d ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 8d ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology French

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How did 'to wit' shift to denote 'that is to say'?

0 answers · posted 5mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 4mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Why wasn't the prefix 'ad-' used for 'in-' + 'putare'?

0 answers · posted 5mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did "bail" shift to signify "money deposited as a guarantee when released"?

1 answer · posted 5d ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 2d ago by Ullallulloo‭

etymology legal-language

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What is "Charter change bill" in English?

1 answer · posted 1mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · last activity 19d ago by mcalex‭

English

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How did syn + ek + dekhesthai compound to signify "supply a thought or word; take with something else, join in receiving"?

0 answers · posted 2mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 2mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology Greek

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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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What is "phoolon" in Hindi?

1 answer · posted 3mo ago by Istiak‭ · last activity 3mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

Hindi

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How's “drag” (tractāre) semantically related to “handle, deal with, discuss”?

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 3mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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How did 'security' semantically shift to signify 'tradable financial asset'?

0 answers · posted 5d ago by PSTH‭ · edited 5d ago by PSTH‭

etymology finance

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How to say in Thai "There isn't a necessity to think in the pattern of X"?

0 answers · posted 2mo ago by JohnDoea‭

Thai

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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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What language is this (cursive) sample?

1 answer · posted 2mo ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 26d ago by Jirka Hanika‭

identification language-identification

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How does the original meaning of “but” (“outside”) relate to its current 2021 meanings?

1 answer · posted 5mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 4mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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Which phrase is correct? (Is using plural form for singular object make sense?) (Does using plural form for singular object make sense?)

3 answers · posted 1mo ago by Istiak‭ · edited 25d ago by Istiak‭

English

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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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"Us neither" - Is it valid?

0 answers · posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭

English grammar

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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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How did 'equity' semantically broaden to mean 'common shares'?

0 answers · posted 4d ago by PSTH‭ · edited 1d ago by PSTH‭

etymology finance

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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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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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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 did 'consideration' shift to signify grounds and the act of deliberation, then inducer of a grant or promise?

1 answer · posted 12mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 11mo ago by Moshi‭

etymology English particular-word

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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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How tan pronounced?

2 answers · posted 3mo ago by Istiak‭ · last activity 3mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English pronunciation

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A possible common confusion between electronic, digital and virtual

0 answers · posted 5mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · edited 5mo ago by Moshi‭

colloquial

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Is any theory according to which Yiddish is Turkic or Khazar-based supported by any serious evidence?

1 answer · posted 6mo ago by JohnDoea‭ · last activity 5mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

German Yiddish Turkic Khazar Cuman

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

0 answers · posted 5d ago by PSTH‭ · edited 5d ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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Why did David Ricardo coin "rent", to signify income from a factor of production that exceeds the minimum amount necessary (to beget that factor of production)?

0 answers · posted 5mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 5mo ago by Moshi‭

etymology English

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

1 answer · posted 1y ago by Moshi‭ · last activity 1y ago by Sigma‭

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How did 'repraesentāre' semantically shift to signify 'standing in the place of another'?

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by PSTH‭ · edited 3mo ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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Does English support three-word contractions?

2 answers · posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭ · last activity 1y ago by shpielmeister‭

English contractions

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

2 answers · posted 1y ago by DonielF‭ · last activity 1y ago by nobodyImportant‭

conjugation

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How did 'in-' + 'putare' compound to mean 'to attribute, credit to'?

1 answer · posted 5mo ago by PSTH‭ · last activity 3mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology Latin

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What drives the complexity of a language?

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

historical-linguistics

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～ません versus ～ないです

2 answers · posted 1y ago by Moshi‭ · edited 12mo ago by Moshi‭

Japanese verb-conjugation

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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 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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What does "unused root" mean?

1 answer · posted 12mo ago by Harel13‭ · edited 12mo ago by msh210‭

Hebrew etymology

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What causes people to write compound words as distinct words?

0 answers · posted 3mo ago by tommi‭ · edited 2mo ago by Moshi‭

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