Michael Chapman wrote:
Think, I might excuse Finnish for not having a word for ossuary,
though !
It has, although it possibly wasn't very clear in Sampo's original
post. The word is luusto, as he wrote.
Finnish, as many other languages can form an neverending multitude
of words by combining
Michael Chapman wrote:
Think, I might excuse Finnish for not having a word for ossuary,
though !
It has, although it possibly wasn't very clear in Sampo's original
post. The word is luusto, as he wrote.
Finnish, as many other languages can form an neverending multitude
of words by
as an aside (and without looking it up) ossuary clearly means some
official receptacle for bones, I would guess?
Dr Peter Lennox
What I find fascinating is words that are either absent, or if present
rarely used but replaced by compounds.
Things like 'foot-fingers' (French) and 'hand-shoes'
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:56:04PM -, Michael Chapman wrote:
What I find fascinating is words that are either absent, or if present
rarely used but replaced by compounds.
Things like 'foot-fingers' (French) and 'hand-shoes' (German)
and by comparison 'sibling' (English) which is rare*
Michael Chapman s...@mchapman.com wrote:
*I remember being told there was no direct English translation,
when I first learnt German ;-(
For 'sibling'? This is indeed true, if used as a singular. You may have
'siblings' (Geschwister) in German but if it's just one then it's either
a brother or
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 01:56:04PM -, Michael Chapman wrote:
What I find fascinating is words that are either absent, or if present
rarely used but replaced by compounds.
Things like 'foot-fingers' (French) and 'hand-shoes' (German)
and by comparison 'sibling' (English) which is rare*
your post is almost enough to distract me from my work Sampo , but no...
must resist..
On 12 October 2012 18:49, Sampo Syreeni de...@iki.fi wrote:
On 2012-10-10, Martin Leese wrote:
f.e. M?l?e : which Google translates in german to something like fray
in naval warfare? !?
My English
On 12/10/2012 18:49, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
..
but we seem to be hitting some interesting ones at last: my latest one
was ossuary. Why precisely a language should have to retain such forms
and why somebody should inject a word like that into the vocabulary
escapes me. But once again it's pretty as
--On 12 October 2012 20:49 +0300 Sampo Syreeni de...@iki.fi wrote:
Melee (no accents in English)
This remark surprised me, so I checked. Chambers Dictionary gives only the
fully accented spelling, mêlée; Shorter Oxford gives mêlée first, but
melée and melee as alternatives; Wikipedia gives
