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Explorations of Etymology / Historical Linguistics. Usually on Fridays.
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A major overhaul of the family. Originally produced in compassion for Nuku'alofa and Tonga after the eruption there
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The resemblance to <*qarop>: "front, face" is most likely just an accident of the merger of Malayo-Polynesian <*d> and <*r>.
(Though there is some precedent for semantic shift between "face" and various emotions.)
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You could even imagine that the merger of "wave to" and "feel compassion for" drives the development of the salutation.
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In Polynesian languages it becomes particularly confusing—first, the almost complete merger of <*r> and <*l>; second, the common practice in Polynesian languages of using "love, compassion" as a salutation.
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There is disagreement whether Oceanic word: "to be fond of, to feel empathy for" is properly reconstructed as with an <*l>, making it a likely derivative of Austronesian <*qalǝp>: "to beckon, to wave", or with an <*r>, and thus presumably a separate root.
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Check it out if you, like me, are late to the party!
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Gula still lives in Nippur 😀
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The image reminds me of when my local newspaper had some strong opinions about syntactic typology 😄
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Also a little surprising YWHW only shows up once, considering how many names it is in
oganesson < Оганеся́н < Հովհաննես < Ἰωάννης <יוחנן
(John)
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It's fairly surprising that only one element name (phosphorus) derives from *bʰer-: "to bear, to carry". Considering a) that's such a big family, I've never managed to publish it; and b) even just -φορος itself shows up in a lot of science words
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Tweaks
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I didn't know about the Albanian that you call out as surprising, but it looks like the other <*(s)teg-> root, the one that is the origin of "stack". The roots may be related? (footnote 4 on my page)
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😄
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Yeah, Mandarin is terribly unrepresentative of broader Chinese phonology. It's like representing a Latin word with its French counterpart 🙄
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Compare 😄
Japonic *ika: "squid" / Austronesian *(S/h)ikan: "fish"
Japonic *kuma: "bear" / Austronesian *Cumay: "bear"
Japonic *iŋku: "dog" / Austronesian *uŋkuɣ(kuɣ): "puppy, dog"
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Indeed! As well as English “fee”: “payment”, pronounced much the same. And—through a borrowing from Frankish to Medieval Latin—“fief” and “feudalism”!
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If you haven't seen it before, there's a theory that Κύκλωψ <Kúklōps>: "cyclops" is traditionally understood as "round eye", but this may be an eggcorn of *pḱu-klṓps: "cattle-thief", after Greek lost the word *péḱu. The reinterpretation of the word may have led to a re-envisioning of the creature.
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I just added "fellow" to my data. From Old Norse "félag": "partnership, joint business venture, fellowship", literally "wealth-laying"
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May 30th :)
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Mostly related to Greek χλωρός: "greenish-yellow" 🙃https://www.aidanem.com/word-family-gold.html
But the origin of γλαυκός is an unsolved, so it could be related? But it might have to be a borrowing from paleo-balkan or something, to derive from *ǵʰelh₃-
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Nice, I hadn't added Hendrik or Hendrix :)
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I mean, a dragon man
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To protect their heritage, the [Guild of] Weavers expended a fraction of their wealth, to purchase a rocky island off the mainland coast. They packed up their spindles and skeins and shuttles, and retreated from the company of men, to refine their arts in solitude.
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An island of mystery shrouded in perpetual mist, shunned by sailors, which ancient maps called "Loom" 😀
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Have I not previously posted the Voyage of Hōkū graphic on Bluesky?
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Family resemblance 😄
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I recognize those morphemes 😄
Assuming the etymology where עִבְרִי is related to עָבַר, all three of them are represented in loan words in English!
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*reading about the etymology*
"What are the ones in the army who don't talk?"
Englishmen: "Foot soldiers."
Greeks: "Horses."
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Yeah, I think it is! *gdu is only attested in Goidelic and *gdesi in Goidelic and Brythonic—only reconstructed with the *g by analogy to *gdonyos
Lepontic at least doesn't have attested thorn-clusters
Noric spelling reconstructed *Brog-dos with 𐌙𐌈 <χθ> makes you wonder, but doesn't prove anything
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Yeah!
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Yeah no worries! I’m autistic and that implicature didn’t have much weight for me, but mileage varies!
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That’s after the Bronze Age Collapse 😉
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Yeah, I do that with full families of course. I might have to start uploading toss off visualizations like this too
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Gotcha! I wasn't familiar enough with the idea, but I see the distinction now