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I'm currently working on the Ancient Greek resources page. There are several textbooks I've used and found useful, as well as various other resources that are not open source. What should our polic...
The speakers you have encoutered may be adding Erhua which is common in the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. The '-er' that is added serves various semantic purposes (e.g. diminutive suffix) and is co...
In Icelandic, certain accented vowel letters (especially ó, á) are consistently explained as diphthongs ([ou] and [au], respectively) in pronunciation guides. Accented vowel letters are also encou...
You can express the same meaning as "closed, but not locked with a key" with: "Die Tür ist zugezogen" (if the door was deliberately closed) "Die Tür ist ins Schloss gefallen" (if you did not cl...
Verbs with "me-" as a prefix are active verbs. In the definition of active verbs: Active verb is a term in traditional English grammar for a verb used primarily to indicate an action, process, o...
Your question is about a particular subclass of German verbs, namely weak verbs. Weak verbs, along with their conjugation, are a Proto-Germanic invention. Proto-Germanic isn't an attested languag...
I think these sort under the "too broad" category and should be closed. Questions should ideally have some lasting value to future readers, meaning that they must be rather specific. It is fine to...
I realize that we don't have an official stance on translation questions, so I am looking for community feedback. Should translation questions of words/phrases be considered off-topic?
The closest term I’ve found is anaptyxis, the form of epenthesis that refers to inserting a vowel, but this is still fairly vague. A similar phenomenon is mentioned in this paper, regarding the pr...
One misconception: They/them has not been strictly plural for quite a long time. Even Shakespeare used it. There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / as if I were their well-acquainted friend...
Why is the -an in "شُكْرًا" (shukran) pronounced? I've heard it pronounced this way in Modern Standard Arabic and in colloquial. In both, I'd usually expect the -an to not be pronounced, especiall...
This is one of four (or more) alternative answers. (I am posting the alternatives separately and simultaneously to allow separate voting and commenting. They represent elaborations of potential c...
I am active on the Linguistics Stack Exchange but would really like to leave there completely. I see this site as a potential alternative, but haven't become active here yet. So in a way you could ...
If you're around tomorrow, stop by. I'll eat when I'm hungry. She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes. You're around tomorrow, I'm hungry, and she comes are describing fu...
In Spanish.SE we used to have quite a lot of fun with the Translation Golf: we would pick some English text and the goal was to translate it into Spanish using the less amount of characters as poss...
Japanese, 20 characters コディダクトの語学コミュニティにようこそ! I'm not actually sure how "Codidact" would be converted into katakana, since nobody told me how to pronounce it.
Quoting from https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=ohyra&pz=1: sedan första årtiondet av 1500-talet (Helige mäns lefverne); fornsv. ohyra ’odjur; stor mängd’; urspr. ’ngt otäckt, otrevligt’ Se...
It is generally easier to track down the earliest usages of a word, than the earliest usages of an entire phrase from which the word eventually developed. I'll offer two speculative answers; they ...
High Valyrian [conlang], 75 characters Va Udrirri jemī jiōri, īlva lentun mirto syt ēngos udrirī se jāhe galryr ia nūmāzme gūrēños. Literal translation back: We welcome you [pl] to Languag...
quibble [17] _Quibble _probably originated as a rather ponderous learned joke-word. It is derived from an earlier and now obsolete _quib _‘pun’, which appears to have been based on quibus...
German - 63 characters Willkommen in unserer Community für Sprach- und Linguistikinteressierte! Thanks to German for allowing to cobble together words. A literal translation of it would be: ...
English, 31 characters Hi! This site's for you if you like lingo. Notes: I consider Hi!, as an informal but not impolite greeting, to connote both the greeting and the acceptance aspects...
I'll address the etymology of "negotiable" (noun), which is a shorthand for "negotiable instrument of payment", where "negotiable" is a deverbal adjective from the transitive sense of the verb "neg...
I am reading some texts about routes for running. They explain interesting routes and allow getting the GPS track. Also, there is the option to modify the GPS track by adding waypoints. Now I wan...
It seems like a somewhat oxymoronic term, but I think that destí intermedi communicates the correct idea. Once I'd thought of that, I searched for prior usage: the Spanish equivalent seems to be fa...