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by peterlin
Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:47 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The Suppletion Thread
Replies: 81
Views: 34093

I've always found weird the different roots used for male and female specimen of the same animal (and even for whelps). Russian is rather rich of these: Dog - пёс (♂) - собака (♀) Horse - конь (♂) - лошадь (♀) Except that both of these are pairs of synonymous words which don't specify the gender of...
by peterlin
Mon May 21, 2007 9:24 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.
Replies: 34
Views: 29172

And the Polish one: North - p?lnoc (=midnight) South - poludnie (=midday, noon) East - wsch?d (=[sun]rise) West - zach?d (=[sun]set) :mrgreen: záchod means WC in Czech. It's said "slunce vychází na východě a zachází na záchodě" but that's meant as a joke. I know, that's one of the most "famous" Pol...
by peterlin
Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:03 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 306611

I'm not sure if this one hasn't been posted. Even if it has, it surely deserves a re-post. Here it is:

key to stolen .pdf grammar list
by peterlin
Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:24 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.
Replies: 34
Views: 29172

linguoboy: Thanks. I had heard/read about this before, but the knowledge dissapeared when I was writing the post. gach: Thanks for the Finnish set. Yesterday I came across the Komi one. Quite interesting, but not extravagant. Here it is: North - vojvyv (voj = night) South - lunvyv (lun = day; isn't ...
by peterlin
Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:45 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.
Replies: 34
Views: 29172

Re: Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.

Rutul: north- ja'ha'nem (lit. hell) south- ja'nnet (lit. paradise) Now, I was wondering if a similar phenomenon occurs elsewhere in the world. I forgot to point out that these are very similar to the Turkish words for Heaven and Hell: Cennet and Cehennem (where <c> = /dZ/). I wonder what exactly th...
by peterlin
Sat Nov 20, 2004 9:57 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.
Replies: 34
Views: 29172

Semantically loaded names for cardinal points.

In some Daghestani languages names of some cardinal points (directions), north and south in particular, are semantically loaded. North is negatively associated, South has favorable connotations. This is probably 'caused by Islam being brought there from South and northern Daghestanis being last to a...