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It seems that -sdh- gives -rd- in English but that -sd- gives -st-, at least in unaccented syllables.Germanic seems to have had quite a complicated sound change where [z] ---> [r] only in certain specific conditions. e.g. English "freeze" <> German "frieren" with an r. The "freeze"/"frieren" thing ...

*pesd- "to fart" (Lat. pedō "I fart") Don't forget English fart itself! Or is that from another, although related, root?[/quote] "Fart" is from *perd-. It seems *perd- and *pesd- are variations of each other, though some linguists try to push a semantic difference on the two (i.e. maybe *perd- was ...

Here are all the ones I can find: *sd/*sdh *āsdhro- "burning" (Toch. B astare "pure") *awisdh- "to percieve" (Lat. audio "I hear") *gwesdo- "branch" (Old High German questa "tuft of branches", Alb. gjeth "leaf", Old Polish gwozd "mountain forest") *ghasdho- "rod, staff" (Lat. hasta "spear") *ghoisdo...

I've noticed that several Old English verbs, such as þrāwan "to throw" and cnāwan "to know" have Proto-Germanic forms without the /w/ (*þrēanan and *knēanan respectively). Where did this /w/ come from? Is it simply epenthetic?

I dreamed I was in a church similar to, but not quite the same as the one I went to until I was 20 or so. The back of each pew had little headphone jacks installed along the length of them so that people could listen to the sermon easier. I had managed to hack mine so that it played music instead, b...

[J] in X-sampa, in case the IPA character in the title doesn't show up. What are some possible sound changes for it? It's a sound I don't like and rarely include in my languages, but a recent conlang developed it as a result of a change I had to include for other reasons and now I'm not sure how to ...

I dreamed that Yusuke Urameshi had made a promise to a Xenomorph (whom he referred to as "the king of the world") that, when the alien was dying, Yusuke would come and fight him to the death so that he could die with honor. The battle consisted of the two stalking each other through pitch-black room...

Cool, thanks everyone.

Some languages which have a T-V distinction in the 2nd person pronouns also have verbs that mean "use X pronoun when addressing me". For example, French tutoie-moi "use tu when addressing me". My question is, of the languages that have verbs like this, how are they formed? I can't seem to find anyth...

She thought it was hilarious afterwards when I told her what the reason was, but at the moment she was pissed I woke her up. Kind of an anticlimactic ending.

I dreamed that an alien (the stereotypical grey alien) fell through my skylight (my apartment doesn't have a skylight) and broke its neck upon impact. Another alien immediately ran up to it, but stopped when it saw me. In my mind, while I was dreaming, it was absolutely imperative that I warned my f...

I've read more than once that the distinction between voiced and unvoiced plosives in English is more a distinction between aspirated and non-aspirated, and to a native speaker's ear a non-aspirated initial plosive (in a foreign language) sounds voiced (and also that non-aspirated and hence voiced ...

"Taivas Lyö Tulta" and "Vaadimme Metallia" by Teräsbetoni

Taivas: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wZqpwVZqQFg
Vaadimme: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vKTGBeYhaWo

Fnásesca kinship terms: Family: ganái Relative: hweba Descendant: nepsa Ancestor: an Sibling: sóna Parent: aste Grandparent: eta, didi (familiar term) In-law: hweba gamusonos (lit. "relative of marriage") Step-relative: hweba jorosonos (lit. "relative of addition") Step-child: lombra (male), lombre ...

"Poem for Peace" - A poem spoken in twenty or so different languages http://chrw.usc.uwo.ca/mp3/2002/Kemp%2C%20Penn%20-%20Poems%20For%20Peace/kemp.htm "Full Circle" - Another poem translated into a crapload of natlangs http://www.languageportraits.net/ Cool. Omniglot often has links to forran langua...

Does anyone have the Proto-Germanic -> Old Norse -> Modern Icelandic
changes?

I'd like to request Proto-Germanic -> Old Norse -> Modern Icelandic