La bicicleta, un desastre para el capitalismo

Best table for #polishprepositions EVER!! 🤩 All of them ordered by cases (#przypadki) with one meaning in English given and different colors, very helpful! Especially the #prepositions that work like German #wechselpräpositionen. Dzięki wielkie, Polski na wynos #polish #grammar

The word 'stead' has the same distant ancestor as 'stasis', a borrowing from Ancient Greek. It's also related to German 'Stadt' (city) and, more distantly, to 'station' and Italian 'stagione' (season). All of these stem from the root that also gave us 'to stand'. Here's more:

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If you read hanza, it's obvious; but for the rest of us it doesn't much sound like "Beijing" (北京) and "Tokyo" (東京) contain the same word! 京 in Middle Chinese was /kjaeng/, which became /t͡ɕiŋ/ in Mandarin and /kʲoː/ in Japanese.

Spanish 'desayunar', Portuguese 'desjejuar', and French 'déjeûner' (outside France) mean "to breakfast". Their original meaning is "to break the fast" - just like 'breakfast'. They come from 'des-' ("dis-") plus a verb stemming from Latin 'jejūnāre' (to fast). Here's more: 1/

The reason the word pairs in my video below remained similar is not coincidence. They contain sounds that underwent few changes, such as /m/, /r/, /l/, /w/. Conversely, stop consonants such as /p/, /t/, /k/ changed dramatically in Proto-Germanic - a change called Grimm's Law:

“Traffic Light” in various European languages. mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/691575067…

What do the words 'fairy', 'prophet', 'fabulous', 'to blaspheme' and 'fatal' have in common? They're all derived from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to speak". The f-words came to us via Latin, the ph-words via Ancient Greek. I gave either group its own graphic: 1/

Nicht nur Asterix gibt es in verschiedenen Dialekten de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der…, auch „Der kleine Prinz“ ist in mehreren Dialekten erhältlich. Ein Buch beginnt z.B. so: „Wie ich sechs Johr olt wor, hob ich amol a Buch betrocht, des wor übern Urwald und hot „Wohra Gschichtn“ ghaaßn“

Grasshoppers are commonly known for their jumping ability, but in some languages, they are also associated with horses. mapologies.com/bugs/ #etymology #etymologymap #insect #language

Progressive values slowly moving eastwards in Europe. Map by Landgeist Maps shows support for same-sex marriage by country. Source: buff.ly/4bJFyg5

I‘m happy to have the opportunity to present my #corpusresearch on German #prepositionalverbs with #DeReKo at the IDS Mannheim this Wednesday! ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/verans… Looking forward to your questions and comments! 🙂

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If you happen to be a German speaker you MUST do this test. You are being asked to name 24 objects and based on the dialect you choose you get displayed a map of where you are from. Spot on for me! Source: buff.ly/3YYqfw6

The word "comma" comes from Greek "κόμμα" (kómma), meaning "a piece cut off." However, in French and Italian is different; from Latin "virgula" meaning "a little rod." mapologies.com/symbols/ #comma #punctuation #symbol #etymology #languages #map #beistrich #virgule #mapologies

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What an AMAZING 🤩 website I just found: #wordmaps for Europe, language games and more!!! baltoslav.eu/index.php?mova… For all #languagelovers, #languagenerds and #comparativelinguistics 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇳🇴 🇷🇴 🇱🇹 and many more 💚💛🧡 #inmanylanguages #enmuchaslenguas #wwielujezykach