Europe /"jO:r@p/
Uranus /j@"rejn@s/
your anus /j@"rejn@s/ (identical with Uranus) or, when speaking more carefully, /jO:"rejn@s/
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- Thu Mar 01, 2018 3:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 666154
- Fri Jun 09, 2017 3:38 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
- Replies: 323
- Views: 97773
Re: A Very Brief Explanation of the British Election
During the last general election in 2015 the SNP got the most votes in almost all of the 59 Westminster parliamentary constituencies in Scotland. There were just three exceptions---a border constituency which was held by the Tories, a seat in Edinburgh which was held by Labour, and the Northern Isle...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 12:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114324
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
An ort is a leftover scrap of food. The word may be derived from the English cognate of the German prefix Ur- added to a reduced form of the word eat.
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315029
Re: resources
Carib grammar by Hendrik Courtz.
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:04 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462564
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Oh, right! See, I did look at the translation, but I was thinking of the whole phrase "big load" as the translation of the single word *méǵh₂m̥. This, I guess, is why word-by-word glosses are helpful :) I was also thrown off by the ellipsis of *bʰered 'carrying' in that clause (which I'm guessing oc...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:53 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462564
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I'm trying to understand Byrd's translation of Schleicher's fable, and I'm puzzled by the word *bʰórom which appears in the sentence "só gʷr̥hₓúm u̯óǵʰom u̯eǵʰed; só méǵh₂m̥ bʰórom ; só dʰǵʰémonm̥ h₂ṓḱu bʰered." The first and third clauses are simple; *u̯eǵʰed and *bʰered are 3sg. past active indica...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:30 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462564
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
What I've seen being speculated is that *-om was a particle that had several uses, inter alia meaning something being in a relationship with something else, whence it's use in the Gen. Pl., and that in the neuters it was firstly a derivational suffix (e.g. *yug-om "related to / used for coupling / ...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462564
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
I have a question (or several questions): what's the origin of Sanskrit ahám 'I'? Ringe (2006) reconstructs the PIE nom. 1sg. pronoun as *égh₂, and the only reason I can see why the final laryngeal might be reconstructed is so that áham can be derived from *égh₂-om. In that case, *-om could be the t...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462564
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
Well, the root is attested in Indo-Iranian, Greek, Albanian and Italic as well. It's just that Celtic and Germanic are the only ones which attest to the presence of the *w-.
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
- Replies: 2225
- Views: 462564
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread
There's the widely-attested nominal stem *wréh₂d- 'root', with *wr- reflected in Welsh gwraidd and Irish fréamh, and the *w- of the oblique stem *wr̥h₂d- reflected in Goth. waúrts, ON urt, OE wyrt (> NE wort), OHG wurz.
- Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:21 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Aspiration and VOT: Some questions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3463
Re: Aspiration and VOT: Some questions
It's true that voiced aspiration is just breathy voice. But breathy voice is a related phenomenon to aspiration, and it therefore makes sense for voiced aspirated stops to be referred to as such. To aspirate a voiceless stop which is immediately before a vowel, you keep the voicelessness going for l...
- Thu Aug 11, 2016 1:27 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315029
Re: resources
Does anybody have a link to Lehmann's A Grammar of Proto-Germanic ? It seems to have been either moved from its old location at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/lrc/books/pgmc00.html or deleted altogether. I can't find any of the other historical linguistics books that used to be available on UT A...
- Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Question about vocal cords/voicing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2297
Re: Question about vocal cords/voicing
My understanding of it is that the vocal folds are apart when the laryngeal muscles are relaxed, so that only voiceless sounds can be produced. Maybe it's also possible to hold them further apart by contracting some of the muscles, I don't know. But at the other extreme, if the glottis is held firml...
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 10:31 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Hapax Phonoumena
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10770
Re: Hapax Phonoumena
Amuzgo has a syllabic, prenasalized, voiced velarized bilabial trill which appears exclusively in the word [ʃa˥m̩ˠʙˠ˥] 'antlion'. (The only other phonemic syllabic consonant is /n̩/, which can be pronounced with any place of articulation, or as a lateral, depending on the consonants that follow it....
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 5:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlearn
- Replies: 669
- Views: 157137
Re: Incorrect pronunciations you have (or have had) to unlea
Final e in German names here are traditionally pronounced /i/. That reminds me of something I've been wondering about. In the US, German names with <oe> are generally pronounced /oʊ/, because of orthography. But why are German names in <oe (ö)> /œ/ pronounced /ɚ/ in English (viz., Goethe /gɚtə/, Go...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 6:04 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114324
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Ooh, here's a good one: ked is a word used to refer to certain species of parasitic flies of the family Hipposcobidae. One of them, Melophagus ovinus , is a common parasite of sheep, which is presumably how it has ended up with a common English name. The word is attested from the 16th century, and h...
- Thu Sep 17, 2015 3:12 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315029
- Sun Aug 23, 2015 8:09 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315029
Re: resources
The writers of the Tumblr blog The Qwanqwa Project have uploaded a drive with lots of resources on African languages, including, for example, a grammar of Modern South Arabian.
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:43 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 315029
Re: resources
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/system/files/tocharian.pdf
A concise handbook on Tocharian covering the development of the languages from PIE and their synchronic phonology and grammar.
A concise handbook on Tocharian covering the development of the languages from PIE and their synchronic phonology and grammar.
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: please call stella
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7553
Re: please call stella
Well, I don't have a microphone, and I don't know which part of my laptop receives the sound, so I probably wasn't directing my voice in the ideal direction.marconatrix wrote:Why have you got your head inside a tin bucket?Alces wrote:Mine: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0NiOOjUNkNF
- Sun Jul 19, 2015 8:08 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: please call stella
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7553
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 666154
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Laura ["lO:r\@] (I don't know if [r\] is the best transcription--for me it has strong labialisation, in fact it seems like most of the obstruction is at the lips; my tongue barely moves from its resting position. But it's not the same kind of labialisation I have in [w]. Compared to [w], my lips pr...
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:00 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 666154
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
discussed [dI"skUst] disgust [dIs"gUst] (I think there is a slight difference here, but it's hardly audible and I imagine my pronunciation is usually indistinguishable from [dI"skUst] within connected speech) Xavier ["zeIvi@] sphere ["sfi@] Sven ["svEn] wont ["wQnt] (although I don't think I've ever...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 8:22 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 900093
Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
Yes--I've decided that, at least in an early stage of Wendoth, the prepositional clitics were postpositional, so -ta and -zha act as postpositions in that text. I think my initial motivation for making that change was that the instrumental case seemed a bit tacked-on and not really integrated into t...
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:52 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang relay [relocated] (aka "The Cursed Relay")
- Replies: 2538
- Views: 900093
Re: Akana Conlang Relay 2011 (The Never Ending Relay)
That's fine with me :) I've drawn up some notes on two more Wendoth descendants now as well: Hỳng , a language spoken in the southeast part of the EW area, close to Wihəs (with some nice developments like p_G > k, t_G > t_w > p and ts > tT > tf; I had fun writing the sound changes for this one :) ) ...