#Etymology

Tejinder

singhtejinder

Punjabi and Farsi share some common roots. In this thread I will present some words as I observe them. This will help us to understand etymology of Punjabi words .

Chris McLaren☢

MisterMcLaren

Since it's a rainy Sunday afternoon, and my feed is full of things that make me angry or tired, I am going to counter by linking to a few things

Peter Sokolowski

PeterSokolowski

My talk this morning for ESL teachers in Mexico, for MEXTESOL, is about usage. It's a topic that is rarely covered in ESL contexts. For most of us, "usage" is

Caitlin Rosenthal

CC_Rosenthal

If the question is about etymology, neither Adam Smith nor any of the enslavers I have studied regularly used the phrase "human capital" (I won't say never, but I haven't

Raj Sharma

RajSharma1857

One of the etymology of popular Indian sweet जलेबी is also derived from Sanskrit word 'जलवल्लिका' or 'जलवल्ली' (due to watery syrup in it) जलवल्लिका > जलव

Radical Catholic

RadicalCath

As someone who's studied IE etymology in some depth, I can tell you there's no bottom to this particular barrel; you can find culture and worldview intertwined in language all

Amelia Bloody Rose

AmeliaRoseWrite

I ... MAY ... have commented once or twice on the stupid nature of JKR's magic spells, and specifically how linguistically nonsensical they are, but this is one I had

YHWH Yeshua The Way

YHWH_Yeshua_Way

Bible Study Discussion Thread: after the Ascension of the Messiah into Heaven, the Holy Scriptures say the Disciples preached in public, in the Temple at Jerusalem, and in Synagogues. Besides

Shoaib Daniyal

ShoaibDaniyal

Ironically for a region that is the centre of mediaeval Bengal, Malda largely does not have modern Bangla as its mother tongue. Rural Malda (and parts of Dinajpur/Murshidabad) dominated by

Connor Goldsmith

dreamoforgonon

I realize it isn’t the most important thing, but I wish more outlets would style it antisemitism, all lowercase, no hyphen. To do otherwise implies the existence of something called

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer

nathanoseroff

I've got my five-point harness strapped in, it's time to run me through the centrifuge at 20g. Liquify me. Good humanities is claiming Greece invented beauty and Rome invented language.

Tartu Krab 🌐

koutchoukalimar

The Bashkir language is spoken by the Bashkirs (no shit), a Turkic people who predominantly live in contemporary Central Russia. Their words for "straw" and "pencil" are related, but ended

Jesse Stommel

Jessifer

I have never found the distinction between andragogy and pedagogy all that useful.Andragogy describes one possible approach to teaching adults. The literature around andragogy is quite narrow. Pedagogy is a

foone

Foone

If anyone ever complains about your ideas being ridiculous, just remember that once a gay guy in England had the idea of giving sand anxiety, and that's how we defeated

Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš

samopriya

The original term in Tamil-Malayalam for the island of Sri Lanka is īr̤am /iːɻɐm/ ஈழம் ഈഴം (pronunciation subject to dialectal changes, e.g., [iːjɐm], [iːɭɐm], [iːɭɐ̃] &c.).It's usually etymologized from

Lunar Archivist

LunarArchivist

Seriously, am I going to have to be doing one of these etymology threads every time the Crunchyroll translator for "Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro" uses a word they