Cotton in that language [Hebrew], by the way, is named periphrastically; tsemer gefen (vine wool). Flam , do you know if the Hebrew term is ancient, or whether it is a modern construction, influenced, perhaps, by words like German « Baumwolle » ?... Henri I didn't know the answer but luckily somebo...

As much as a broken sakura tree does for me. Could anybody suggest an etymological dictionary of French?

1. An agreement, as between lovers, to meet at a certain time and place. 2. A meeting or meeting place that has been agreed on.

Related IE words include tree, truce, dryad, endure, trust and truth. Does this relate to Indo-European inclination for dendromancy?

Flam

Ersatz is a German name (literal meaning: "substitute") for products, especially chemical compounds and provisions developed in wartimes when shortage of certain goods was imminent. It is associated with cheap replacement, low quality and disgust. The word surfaced during World War I in G...

What do we call a disorderly orderly?

PIE *weid- is also the source of video, visual and other sight-related words.

Flam: Ji ozer day I went wiz my brozer to ze brozel. Why "ji" for "the" in one position and "ze" for 'the' in the other? The former "the" precedes a word beginning with a vowel. Therefore, it is pronounced /dhi/ in English, which a Japanese-influenced speaker...

The most Japanese-like version of the sentence is:
Ji ozer day I went wiz my brozer to ze brozel.

Even though "the" is expected to become "zi", the Japanese interference may not stop there.

NB. "Zi" is replaced by "ji" in Japanese morphology.

Phuramu.

Well, confusing b for v, l for r is not what Japanese are endowed with usufruct.

Let's not forget another emo in this language forum.

emo = I buy, am buying, do buy

emo, ergo sum.

How's that as a copy for a marketised planet?

In Azerbaijan, many proverbs refer to yogurt and halva, including "He who burns his mouth on milk will blow on yogurt when eating it"...

Or 羹に懲りて膾を吹く。

Just substitute milk with hot soup and yogurt with cold row fish (well, there is more to it, though).

I couldn't drop the idea and checked [url=http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/cotton[/url](2000). qTn To be(come) thin, fine, small. COTTON, from Arabic quTn, quTun, cotton, perhaps akin to Akkadian qataanu, to be(come) thin, fine (of textiles), or perhaps borrowed from an unknown ...

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ ... rapos.html

A place to raise your consciousness.

This accusative talk reminds me that it is possible in German, as well as in many other languages, among them English (only Germanic and Romance?), to have a subject in the accusative form after causative and sense verbs: That's Object-to-Subject raising, quite a universal phenomenon found in langu...

Sure. Er lehrt sie die Aussprache der deutschen Städte . Uggr, I was expecting No for your answer just to make things clean and tight, locked and stored. But as languages rule, there is no arguing by mere humans. Perhaps scrambling the word order changes the countenance of the problem here. Here ar...