Languages & Linguistics

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

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list-of-languages

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

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Latin

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

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etymology English

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

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etymology English legal-language

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

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etymology

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

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

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Hebrew

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Etymology of "ohyra"?

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etymology Swedish

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Order of pronouns

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English grammar pronouns

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

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etymology

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Icelandic patronymic pronunciation

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Icelandic

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

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by Sigma‭

Chinese

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

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by PSTH‭

etymology

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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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How do linguists determine historical pronunciation?

1 answer · last activity 6 months ago by Moshi‭

historical-linguistics pronunciation

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"Us neither" - Is it valid?

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English grammar

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

0 answers · last activity about 15 hours ago by PSTH‭

etymology Spanish

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

1 answer · last activity 6 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics

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Using adjectives that are related to taste for describing emotions

1 answer · last activity 6 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology

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When do you use 'whom'?

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by msh210‭

English

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

2 answers · last activity 5 months ago by DonielF‭

Spanish

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

1 answer · last activity 4 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

etymology English particular-word

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

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by user8078‭

historical-linguistics pronunciation French

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How were ת & ט pronounced historically?

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by msh210‭

Hebrew historical-linguistics pronunciation

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Is Swedish more conservative than Danish and Norwegians?

1 answer · last activity 5 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics Swedish Norwegian Danish

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0 answers · last activity 23 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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Has Japanese always had the polite "masu" form?

1 answer · last activity 6 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

historical-linguistics Japanese

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

1 answer · last activity 7 months ago by Moshi‭

English grammar number

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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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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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'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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Does Japanese have pronouns?

1 answer · last activity 5 months ago by Moshi‭

Japanese pronouns typology

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Why do certain Hebrew letters have alternate final forms?

1 answer · last activity 5 months ago by Moshi‭

Hebrew orthography

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Structures like "skulle gjort" and "skulle gjøre"

1 answer · last activity 7 months ago by Lundin‭

verbs Norwegian

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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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What is "these gentry" in Marxist writing?

1 answer · last activity 6 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

English particular-word

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

2 answers · last activity 8 months ago by DecapitatedSoul‭

English conjugation

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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's the Semantic Field of puto?

0 answers · last activity 16 days ago by PSTH‭

etymology Latin

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

1 answer · last activity 6 months ago by Moshi‭

etymology Arabic

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

1 answer · last activity 8 months ago by Medi1saif‭

Arabic grammar

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