Madhav Deval

He/Him
माधव
Speak of the Deval

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@avzaagzonunaada What would we expect the reflex of Sanskrit matr to be in marathi if it was inherited?

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@colingorrie I’ve never heard of this before- where do we find the attestation of these attempts? It’d be interesting to see how they were chronicled, what people had to say about them at the time

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Thought it was about time I learned runes and then decided to design a “lower case font” for them- maybe if Christianisation hadn’t been tied to the Latin alphabet, Germanic peoples would have switched to books in runic, allowing more curved letter forms. @wylfcen

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@darthgordita The switch from strong past tenses to weak past tenses (where you add an -ed) is something that’s been happening for a thousand years- it’s just the continuation of the same process that means we say climbed instead of clomb.

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@yvanspijk Would the regular evolution of the dative infinitive in English have kept the n in the ending? It looks like it wouldn’t be as susceptible to being lost because it’s not an unstressed final syllable.

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@wylfcen @CaptainZaron501 Doesn’t sound bad at all dude- I’m British Indian, I went to a majority non white school in london and not being white doesn’t make our culture any less British. It is irresponsible to post this kinda stuff not two months after racist pogroms across the country

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@wylfcen High prestige languages make people embarrassed to admit they don’t know a word that sounds like it might come from that language, so they don’t bother asking, they figure it out and start using it to impress other people

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@wylfcen Considering that until the 1300s it’s also common to see her instead of their and hem instead of them, for plural referents, I think it’s just that the h forms were dominant in general

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@wylfcen I don’t think you can predict, or at least posit any causal relationship, between a gene variant and length of schooling

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@wylfcen What do you think Roman era Germanic epics were like? Do you think the plots/ main characters/ style would have been recognisable to Anglo Saxons?

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@eduardo_garcmol The C++ Peoples

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@yvanspijk Ahhh ok ok, that definitely works for libizo, thanks a bunch! I confess I’m a little disappointed it’s not an early form of like lieber or something that influenced the Latin name they chose to go by, but a straight borrowing is pretty satisfying too

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@yvanspijk I was just going through the bishops of Hamburg Bremen and found two Liawizo/Libizo’s from the 10th c,who used the Latin name Libentius- I was wondering if you’d know if Im right in guessing the old Saxon/ohg is be an (unrhotacised?) translation of the Latin? 🙏

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@wylfcen What is shaped is pretty appropriate for a translation of kosmos, which itself is related to the word kosmeo- to put in order/to adorn

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@wylfcen Swedish, get the pitch accent in so that every sentence is a song

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@wylfcen Russia cause of the Rus

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@keyon Please tell me you’re not talking about the mythology cause ares killed the dude that sa’d his daughter and Apollo did a bunch of sas himself

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@Polit_eurOpines @laryngeus Why are you skeptical of garrio?

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@azforeman I kinda like the idea of halo- links to divine favour, a ring of light/energy that surrounds a heavenly body. I’m perhaps influenced by Mughal use of the term Farr-i Izadi for Akbar and constant depiction of emperors with haloes