Interesting Words (moved from Games)

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
And French "terne" and English "tarnish"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
From Frankish "tarnijan".
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Yes or well, about your post anyway. It was only to be expected that you would volunteer that sort of information, so it was funny somehow.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
Ik sian.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
Old Low Franconian, which is also Old Dutch!!!! It evolved from Frankish.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

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Location:
Belgium
Did Dutch evolve straight from Frankish?!
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
Yes‽
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
I didn't know that. I thought, for some reason, that Frankish had just gone extinct.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
Probably because it was idiotically renamed. But ahal and alas.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
The Proto-Slavic *dъždžь, "thunderstorm", [Ru. дождь, Pol. deszcz], literally "bad day", from PIE *dus-dyu, bad-day. Sanskrit also has दुर्दिन, durdina, “rain, shower”, and Ancient Greek has an positive pairing εὐδία, eudía, “fair weather”.
 

Clemens

Aedilis

  • Aedilis

Location:
Maine, United States.
For a good few of us on this forum I'm sure words can and do have a much greater resonance than they do for most "ordinary" people.
I agree, I can remember the first time I encountered some words, like melodious or écueil.
 

Clemens

Aedilis

  • Aedilis

Location:
Maine, United States.
Etiam ego possum, modo scilicet has voces in litteris tuis offendi. :D
Glad I could be of service. The reason I remember écueil is I was taking a course and one of the other students asked (breaking into English), "So does it mean reef or rock?" and the professor responded, "It means écueil." It was a linguistic breakthrough for me—I don't know if the student asking the question found it as meaningful.
 
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