Latinate "quote" from PIE *kʷoti. Germanic doesn't have that, but it's the adverb of *kʷod -> Latin "quod" and English "what" Germanic "quoth" from PIE *gʷéteti. Latin doesn't have that, but the homophonous root gʷet- through p-Celtic or p-Italic gives Latin "bitumen" (Eng. "cud", ScGlc "bìth") 😄

Now past 5k English words and 10k reconstructed forms!

And any day where you get to put Commander Shepard and King Skerdilaidas in the same thread is a good day 😄

By Patreon request! This year, N7 day is a Friday, so we've got "Shepard". www.aidanem.com/word-family-... (Family of sheep not included ... it's a huge mess!)

Hey Guys! #FifthOfNovember

There is a street in Dublin called "Castle Avenue". In Irish it is "Ascaill an Chaisleáin". Since "ascaill" is descended from a borrowing of Latin "axilla", this is "Armpit of the Castle" 😆

Seven years ago my then-4yo requested "Witch" as a word family for Halloween 😄 www.aidanem.com/word-family-...

I present, the lenition hypercube

Script I wrote to find duplicates in my database asked me to review the pair: Pashto لس <las>: "ten" and Pashto لاس <lâs>: "hand" A fair question, but not even related 😆

The Taíno place name "Jamaica"/"Jamayca"/"Xamayca" is recorded as early as Pietro Martire d'Anghiera's _Decades of the New World_ published 1511-1521. ❤️ Jamaica

In some Aruthiran stories, Sir Gawain has a son named Gingalain/Giglan/Wigalois. Their names may be distantly related by way of Proto-Celtic *wolkos/*gʷolkos: "hawk?" 😄

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare. I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛 #NoHunger

Oh hey. And here you can see an example of a kind of typo I do frequently: in typing "Aruthiran" 🙄 for "Arthurian", I have shifted all the vowels over one space relative to the consonants. In a Semitic-morphology kind of way of parallel lines that have to be interwoven.

In some Aruthiran stories, Sir Gawain has a son named Gingalain/Giglan/Wigalois. Their names may be distantly related by way of Proto-Celtic *wolkos/*gʷolkos: "hawk?" 😄

Bonus content from my interview with @dannybate.bsky.social on the ALILI patreon I try to get a little more technical going into 1. autosegmental phonology, and 2. etymology in ASL www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

Oirbsen and Orbraige are related to Old Irish "orbbae"/"orb"†, right? † equiv to M. Ir. "forba", PIE *h₃orbʰyom

I haven't read _Why Q Needs U_ yet, because when the two copies I ordered from the UK arrived, I immediately gave one as a present and lent out the other 🙃

I've built a new interface for self-serve word family graphs. It's stripped down to take a single focus word as input. Among other benefits, this means the entirety of the input can be contained in the url, and therefore be directly linked: lab.aidanem.com/wordfamily/w...

Heh. True.

I'm on Danny's delightful podcast A Language I Love Is! I have so many thoughts and feelings!

Released a new ALILI episode yesterday, about the show's first sign language! ASL is the beloved language of Aidan Elliott-McCrea (the linguist behind @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social), and he gave me both a great intro to ASL and heartfelt social messages too. Listen here: pod.link/1703401848/e...

"hear" is a compound of the root of "ear" and the root of "ear" 😁

Antifascist

Extras eyes on this have accrued some corrections ‪@dwdqdh.bsky.social corrected my poor grasp of Old Slavic @gro-tsen.bsky.social caught some typos in my futhark that I really should have noticed I also switched the Glagolitic and Orkhon from Noto to Profesor García's ALPHABETUM Unicode

October 17th (5:04 pm PDT) will always be Earthquake Day to me. I grew up in a town profoundly shaped by the earthquake, with empty lots downtown where buildings had collapsed for my entire teen years. I myself was just 6mi/10km from the epicenter.

Taking a middle school group to the local Egyptian museum! I made them a scavenger hunt and while there are other parts, the part I’m excited about is to find certain hieroglyphic phrases like 𓅭𓇳 and 𓆥

Living Languages of the Americas, a quick overview www.aidanem.com/living-langu... #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Oh yeah, he was a huge fan! He got his first copy in Italian translation when he was 17. As First Consul, he commissioned the paintings: "Ossian Awakening the Spirits on the Banks of the Lora with the Sound of his Harp" by François Gérard

More importantly though I had no idea Napoleon was familiar with the Fenian cycle??? My mind is blown

As an Irish name "Oscar" would mean "Deer-Friend" (sic) or "Deer-Kinsmen" (the mythological Oscar was the son of Oisín: "Fawn, Deerling"). But it may also be partly derived from the Norse name "Asgeirr": "God-Spear".

There's a number of words for "paper" that both a) are hard to trace to a clear ancestor and b) sound roughly similar. Wanderwort? Phoenician 𐤇𐤓𐤈𐤉𐤕 <ḥrṭyt> Greek χάρτης <khártēs> Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼲𐼹𐼰 <kāγaδā> Old Chinese 紙 <*k.teʔ> Vietic <*k-cajʔ> a chart:

Another very strange double-double 😄 "mile" and "chiroptera" both from PIE roots *ǵʰes- + *peth₂-. Ish.

In a separate fun story, the Old Medean military title *hazārapatiš: "commander of a thousand" was both borrowed into Greek as ἀζαραπατεῖς <azarapateîs>/ἀζαβαρίτης <azabarítēs> and also calqued as χιλίαρχος <khilíarkhos>.

In each Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic the word for "thousand" is derived from Proto-Indo-European <*ǵʰéslo->—apparently "handful"?—but in different forms. Greek χίλιοι <khílioi> ("kilo-") seems to derive from <*ǵʰesliyoy>, which may is probably a plural adjective form?

New word family: milli-, kilo-, millennial, chrono-, yard, surgery, garter, Midgard www.aidanem.com/word-family-...

New word family: milli-, kilo-, millennial, chrono-, yard, surgery, garter, Midgard www.aidanem.com/word-family-...

I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, [...] O goddess, O queen of those below, I beseech you to banish the soul's frenzy to the ends of the earth, show to the initiates a kindly and holy face.

Still an hour till the Hades 2 full release. Killing some time (😉) by reposting my old Hades etymology thread which is not on bsky www.aidanem.com/hades-superg...

Technologically advance a band: Dogstone The Tannahill Power Loom Operators RV Beethoven

Working with Hanzi, seeing 㐬. "Oh, I know that one, it's three skins tied together and represents birth. No, wait. Dammit, that's the hieroglyph 𓄟." Looking it up "㐬 is ... an upside down baby. And represents birth."

Sino-Tibetan <*(kV-)nis>: "two" -> Mandarin 二 <èr>: "two" vs. Proto-Indo-European <*dwóh₁>: "two" -> Armenian երկու <erku>: "two" 🧐

Not you, Greek

This evening, working on a word family Reading a wikipedia article, "oh hey they're quoting @bnuyaminim.bsky.social" later, reading a different wikipedia article, "oh hey, I wrote this." 🙃

PIE: "what makes blowing?" Albanian: "weather" English: "weather" Russian: "weather" Greek: "foot races"

GOAT song

The Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "fetch" (<jnj>) is a little bowl with legs: 𓏎 😄

Does anyone have a satisfactory explanation for the /k/ in ἕλιξ? I really _want_ "helicopter" to be from *wel(H)-, but most -ιξ nouns seem to be very strong candidates for substrate borrowings, unless there is a clear -K in the PIE root.

A colonnade has columns An arcade has arches A palisade has pales/pali (which something could be impaled on) An alameda has elms (really poplars, but cognate to "elm") A lemonade has lemons (A gatorade has gators?)

drove by *h₁elmeh₂teh₂ déh₁ h₂l̥néh₂es plúsekeyes yesterday