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This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English from Latin, French or Greek roots.
It reimagines English as Germanic: ‘uncleft’ is ‘atom’ etc.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
#science #scicomm #language #linguistics #germanic #englishlanguage #uncleftishbeholding #atoms #atomictheory #physics
Germanic Tribes in the Roman Imperial Period
“Germanic Tribal World of the Provinical Roman Period between 50 BC to 300 AD”
#Europe #History #Germanic #Tribes #Map
#Image attribution: Arch.-Stud. A.P., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germanic_Tribes_in_the_Roman_Imperial_Period.png
I love when I get to tell people that English-language days are named after pagan gods.
Sun
Moon
Týr/Tiw
Woden/Odin
Thor
Frey/a
Saturn*
*the planet was named for the Roman god
Let's redo the #introduction
I'm Jeroen from the #Netherlands and a problem solver in #cicd #DevOps
#programming #assembly #c #golang #nim #odin #python #rust #zig
#commodore #c64 #amiga #retrocomputing
Other interests:
#books #fantasy and #SciFi
#bsd #freebsd #unix
#buddhism
#cats
#digipres #library #metadata #SemanticWeb
#documentation #TechnicalWriting
#folklore #mythology
#gamedev
#history
#heraldry #vexillology
#japanese
#linguistics (#germanic #ProtoIndoEuropean)
#typography
Den vise mannen bygger sitt hus på stenar den dåraktiga mannen bygger sitt hus på san. I've just decided that I should learn #Swedish and #Norwegian. Doing so has led me to Old English as well. I know some would view this approach as biting off more than one can chew, however, I see a relationship between all four Languages, that is, #Modern-English, #Old-English, #Swedish and #Norwegian. I find references to any and all these languages, to only be a benefit and a useful reference tool. I'm not planning on any travel at all, as a matter of fact, I hate to travel. I merely want to learn these three extra languages as a means of discovery. I already love #Latin and it's numerous offshoots but I'm suddenly more focused on the #Germanic traits of the aforementioned group. I'd like to hear from speakers and lovers of the #languages just discussed. Thanks.
> ❝We know the common #English word "bear" and its less common variant "bruin" (from #Dutch "bruin", meaning #brown. #French "brun" and "brunette", also signify the color brown, [...] The #Germanic speaking peoples, [...], did not use its common name. Instead, they used a circumlocution: "the brown one", and this is reflected in the modern word for bear in all the Germanic languages.❞
https://charlierussellbears.com/LinguisticArchaeology.html
How to (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European
My most Classics-adjacent paper
How (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European? PIE *bheid- {hâégÊ·him, kÊ·á¹Ìmi-}
In this paper I present evidence for a formula associated with the Indo-European dragon-slaying myth, PIE bheid- {hâégÊ·him, kÊ·rmi-} âsplit serpent/wormâ. This formula is robustly attested in Vedic in the form bhid- áhi-, alongside the variant vraÅc- áhi- âtear/split serpentâ, with possible reflexes being found also in Iranian and Germanic. Though not as widely attested as PIE gÊ·hen- hâégÊ·hi- âslay serpentââa formula discussed in great detail by Watkins 1987, 1995â bheid- {hâégÊ·him, kÊ·rmi-} âsplit serpent/wormâ is semantically more specific, and therefore more distinctive, than gÊ·hen- hâégÊ·him, thus lending additional support for Watkinsâ thesis that there exists a distintively Indo-European dragon-slaying myth.
Historische Sprachforschung 121:3â53. 31 December 2008
#dragons #linguistics #philology #Sanskrit #Germanic #Greek #Latin #Avestan #OldIrish #OldEnglish #OldNorse