Conlangery SHORTS #13: Etymology Maps on Reddit

Conlangery SHORTS #13: Etymology Maps on Reddit

Published: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 04:00:58 +0000 \

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utterance-id1 [noise] [noise] <unk> are just learning to people <unk> and i'm here with eight plus two today i just saw something that i thought oh gosh so there is a threat to separate it called um <unk> uh rent dot com slash our slush etymology maps and um i found this may be an interesting sort of place where ah <unk> <unk> because uh looking at the different maps tee shirt user created maps admitted to read it and there's some some butter ones and some looks good ones but generally pretty good they are maps most of them are maps of europe but there are some that have uh more sort of brought a broader um samples but uh <unk> usually a specific word which several different derivation and so you can see [noise] first of all you see all the different ways you can drive a word for something very useful for people taking uh uh historical route for <unk> or just doing <unk> uh work what they're called like for example uh i thought this was interesting this was this was uh <unk> caught my eye uh in these will all be industry is is um they work for campbell in various languages in in uh europe most <unk> most of the area seems to be derivative from produce medic come out uh coming in through to a lot of european languages through greek um but there's a number or there are a number of languages slavic and um languages and uh uh icelandic use the word <unk> from a word for elephant <unk> in fact the the uh icelandic comes from all norse word that comes from the latin word elephant this which is where oh that's an interesting idea that's you know parents me a number of european languages confused oh it's with camels at one point [laughter] uh and there there are a number one there's uh there's a map of <unk> of clock and you see a whole whole range of different um uh of different ways you can drive a word for clock since you know it's uh mechanical device it's something that's probably going to come in very late so you have <unk> from our from uh from uh <unk> hey a nature greek termed it just said time device it looks like it has the word for a hour in it um bells uh specific moment <unk> something from uh <unk> tower clock or a scale or clock uh just a lot of different possibilities for driving the same word and you should see sort of the ways that um <unk> uh you have one that's uh beer which um a lot of a lot of these are coming from a piano you root it means to drink um there's uh one that comes from uh you know you <unk> mean <unk> or brewer's yeast so you can see what part of that definition came in and a few that are a little less um [noise] certain and uh also there are a few <unk> ethnic term's not all of them are all that um useful but one that i uh saw that was her i mean all that interesting 'cause a lot of lot of them there's like most of the european languages derived from the same one and then there's a few that are different uh one that i found interesting was <unk> this map of the <unk> when various european languages and basically you can see that um many there's a lot of european languages um and apparently um you know a lot of uh western european languages derive it from <unk> which which is where are where jew comes from ah which relates to <unk> yeah and then there are others that are more eastern european generally will have uh from you've re which means hebrew ah and ah that's that just saying that this is actually a a um a biblical reference so we use the word hebrew but we usually use it for the the ah language or for the ancient biblical ethnic group in english so it's interesting to see like different languages maybe prioritizing <unk> the thing about it is like you could find most of these things in a good these origins and a good dictionary just look up in the indy oh we d. or something but having and you could um joe and do some investigations and uh find presentations that have you know just lists of languages but i think having these things in <unk> form is interesting um from a <unk> perspective it would be especially useful for con worlders because seeing it in <unk> form you can see a little bit get a sense of how words brett ah there's you know a lot of these maps you see sort of um different areas of europe are are fine are getting different words and they sort of seemed to be spreading in hey in uh <unk> into <unk> sort of regions and uh although there's there's occasionally you know split soon the domain of something but <unk> you can see sort of ah potentially where regional entered interaction is influenced how words of spreads so if you're doing a con world that has several languages um or even dialects than you can take a look at these maps and get a sense for you know how you can have word spread from ah throughout region so i just thought i would share it with that and keep it uh uh <unk> just to explain a little bit um what uh what kind of things you could possibly ah get from this but uh it's an interesting little corner of read it and uh i encourage people to go take a look at it see what's going on [noise] and i'm going to say happy comedy [noise] thank you for listening to con language you can find our archives ensure nose at <unk> dot com you can send questions comments four topics were featured language suggestions <unk> dot com [noise] to submit a con langhorn outlying reading for the top of the show see our contribute paid for detail [noise] web space pork <unk> provided by the language creation society and our seen music is by no device [noise]

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