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@language-dragon
Hi everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that I created a Twitter account where I’ll be collecting weird etymologies (and welcoming submissions!) ✨
https://www.twitter.com/CursedEtyms
Swedish-English false friends
Corrections/additions appreciated!
Aktuell — actual relevant/current
Egentlig, faktisk — actual, real
Annonsera — announce advertise
Att tillkännage — to announce
En blankett — blanket form (a blanc document to be filled in)
En filt — blanket
Eventuellt — eventually possibly
Äntligen — eventually, finally
Hugga — hug chop, stab
att krama — to hug
Högtid — high time celebration, fest
Dags — high time, the due time for something to happen
Kinkig — kinky tricky/petulant
Krullig — kinky (of hair), kinky, pervers — kinky (of people
Kraft (en) — craft force, power
Hantverk (en) — craft
Mondän — mundane sophisticated, chic
Trivial, vardaglig — mundane
En paragraf — paragraph section, chapter
Ett stycke — paragraph, portion of text
En pensel — pencil paintbrush
En blyertspenna — pencil
En semester — semester holiday
En termin — semester
Spirituell — spiritual witty
Ändlig, religiös — spiritual
En vrist — wrist ankle
En handled — wrist
Vinka — wink wave (one’s hand)
Att blinka — to wink
En vikarie — vicar substitute (tex: lärarvikarie — substitute teacher)
En kyrkoherde — vicar
if you were a mouse and you wanted to change the subject you could say “squeaking of which….”
liian
too
Olen juonut tänään liian paljon kahvia.
I have drunk too much cofee today.
→ olen -nut is indicative, perfect, single 1st person.
苔 ・準1級
こけ
タイ
苔 「こけ」 moss
苔生す 「こけむす」 to become covered in moss, to become aged
苔桃 「こけもも」 lingonberry
苔玉 「こけだま」 moss ball
苔庭 「こけにわ」 moss garden
海苔 「のり」 nori, seaweed
転石苔を生ぜず 「てんせきこけをしょうぜす」 a rolling stone gathers no moss
掃苔する 「そうたいする」 to visit a grave, to clean moss of a headstone
蘚苔 「せんたい」 moss
Баранка
“bear with me” you say. we both turn into bears and escape into the woods
i used to know the finnish word for “down”, but alas
Japanese Winter Vocabulary ❄
冬 ( ふゆ ) - winter
冬至 ( とうじ ) - winter solstice
十二月 ( じゅうにがつ ) - December
一月 ( いちがつ ) - January
二月 ( にがつ ) - February
雪 ( ゆき ) - snow
雪片 ( せっぺん ) / スノーフレーク - snowflake
白 ( しろ ) - white
氷 ( こうり ) - ice
氷柱 ( つらら ) - icicle
寒い ( さむい ) - cold, chilly
ゾクゾク / ぞくぞく - shivering (onomatopoeic / SFX word)
凍る ( こおる ) - to freeze
霜 ( しも ) - frost
雹 ( ひょう ) - hail
吹雪 ( ふぶき ) - blizzard
冬眠 ( とうみん ) - hibernation
雪だるま ( ゆきだるま ) - snowman
そり - sled, sleigh
アイススケート - ice skating
スキー - skiing
毛布 ( もうふ ) - blanket
コート / 上着 ( うわぎ ) - coat
セーター - sweater
スカーフ - scarf
手袋 ( てぶくろ ) - glove, mitten
帽子 ( ぼうし ) - hat
クリスマス - Christmas
「メリークリスマス!」 - “Merry Christmas!”
ハヌカ - Hanukkah
正月 ( しょうがつ ) - New Year
大晦日 ( おおみそか ) - New Year’s Eve
元日 ( がんじつ ) - New Year’s Day (January 1st)
Winter vocab in Norwegian
/Norwegian Bokmål/
Vinter (m) - winter Vintermåned (m) - winter month Desember - December Januar - January Februar - February Snø (m) - snow Snøflak/fnugg (m) - snowflake Å snø - to snow Å stå/gå på ski - (lit: to stand/walk on skis) to ski Ski (m) - ski Slalåm (m) - slalom Is (m) - ice Sludd (n) - sleet Hagl (n) - hail Skare - snow with hard surface, soft under Slaps (n) - slush Frost (m) - frost Rim (m) - rime, frost Å fryse - to freeze Jul (m/f) - Christmas Nyttårsaften (m) - New Year’s Eve Skjerf (n) - scarf Vott (m) - mitten Lue (m/f) - hat Jakke (m/f) - jacket
so I'm listening to NRK P3 and they have a bit where listeners can ask for a song and they pick one to play, like in a lottery, and it's called... et låteri 😂
reading in your target language is like
*reads two words* *picks up dictionary* *reads two more words* *looks up two words in dictionary* *understands two sentences* *rejoices* *looks up word in dictionary* *finally understands the sentence* *looks up same word in dictionary* *despairs* *reads under breath to aid comprehension* *opens up dictionary again* *understands every single word in the sentence but doesn’t understand the sentence* *sighs* *picks up dictionary* *understands more sentences* *rereads same sentence three times* *doesn’t understand* *opens dictiona—
Vocabulaire et Expressions
la jungle du quotidien — the rat race
passer en priorité — to take precedence
primer sur — to be prioritised over
malavisé — misguided
semé d’embûches — fraught with difficulties
un moment de lucidité — a moment of clarity
se nourrir de — to thrive off of
bien mal acquis ne profite jamais — ill got, ill spent
la trêve — let-up, break
la béquille — (emotional) crutch
se désensorceler — become disenchanted
affubler de — deck out in
un vrai périple — a real trek
j’en parlerai à mon cheval! — do I look like I care?
l’empressement — haste, alacrity
le havre de paix — haven of peace
un effet délétère — a deleterious effect
claquer de l’argent — to squander money
broyer du noir — to ruminate with dark thoughts
une conscience lourde — a heavy conscience
considérer comme un dû — to take as a given
Meatlovers
Sarcophilus, from Greek sarx (”flesh”) + philos (”loving”), is the genus containing the Tasmanian devil and its extinct relatives.
Wait, hang on, so if sarx is "meat", and phagus is "eating", what does that make a sarcophagus?!
Sure enough: "from Ancient Greek σαρκοφάγος (sarkophágos, "coffin of limestone"), so named from a supposed property of consuming the flesh of corpses laid in it, from σαρκοφάγος (sarkophágos, "flesh-eating, carnivorous"), from genitive σαρκός (sarkós) of σάρξ (sárx, "flesh, meat")"
Flesh-eating rock, you scary 🥲
Deadly knife-tooth
Smilodon fatalis - sabre-toothed tiger
From Greek smilē (”knife”) + odont (”tooth”) and Latin fatalis (”deadly”).
image credit: Charles R. Knight [Public domain]
Happy Halloween (Cover Version by Raon Lee)
Japanese Vocab List for Happy Halloween
魔法 (まほう) - magic, witchcraft, sorcery
掛ける (かけれる) - to hang, suspend; to put on, wear; to spend (time, money); to pour/sprinkle something onto; to put an effect on; here: 魔法にかけられた - magic was [passive form] put on [me]
お菓子 (おかし) - sweets, candy; confections
~ちゃう - cutesy, childish version of ~してしまう (to do something by accident, or to finish completely)
きっと - surely, undoubtedly
霧 (きり) - fog, mist
濃い (こい) - deep (colour); strong (flavour, smell, etc.)
集まる (あつまる) - to gather, collect; to assemble
アマイモノ (甘い物) - sweets, sweet food
我慢 (がまん) - endurance, patience, perseverance; self-control, restraint
ご褒美 (ほうび) - reward; prize
ほら - an outcry like “look!”, “look out!”, “hey!”
鐘 (かね) - (often large hanging) bell; chime
音 (ね) - sound; noise (おと is the most common reading of 音; ね is mostly used in literary contexts; e.g., poems)
騒ぎ出す (さわぎだす) - to start making a noise, start making an uproar; to go berserk
オバケ - ghost; apparition
許 (ゆるす) - to permit, allow; to forgive, excuse
悪戯 (いたずら) - prank, trick; mischief
幼気な (いたいけな) - young and sweet; adorable, cute; innocent
踊る (おどる) - to dance
カブ (蕪) - turnip
街中 (まちじゅう) - the whole town; all over town
頂戴 (ちょうだい) - [humble ]receiving, reception, getting; being given [something]
不思議な (ふしぎな) - wonderful, marvelous; strange, mysterious; incredible;
欲張りな (よくばりな) - greedy; gluttonous
餌食 (えじき) - prey; victim
庭木 (にわき) - garden tree
ぐるぐる - [Onomatopoetic] (turning) round and round; wrapping, winding around
~ちゃえ - like ~ちゃう, cutesy ~してしまう, but ~え expresses that something is done recklessly, or encourages someone to do something bold
灯 (とう) - lamp; light
時計 (とけい) - clock; watch; timepiece
回る (まわる) - to turn; to revolve
眩む (くらむ) - to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be disoriented by
夜更かし (よふかし) - staying up late; keeping late hours
寝る (ねる) - to sleep, go to bed; to lie down
コロがす (ころ転す) - to roll; to wheel; to turn over; to tip over
Full lyrics under the break
Words You Wouldn't Think Were Etymologically Related: Part 2
Amateur and Amanda
Amateur and Amanda both originate from the Latin amare, meaning to love.
Amateur comes from the Old French amateur, where it meant a lover of something, which originated from the Latin amator, meaning lover. Amator came from amare, which itself originated from the Proto-Italic root *amāō, which meant to be loved.
Amanda is a name meaning 'worthy of love', and was first recorded in England in 1212 and before that in late Antiquity.