science-of-noise: rhysiare: incapableofgivingup: rhysiare: Just felt like doing some comparative lin
science-of-noise:rhysiare:incapableofgivingup:rhysiare:Just felt like doing some comparative linguistic work today. This is between mostly the largest Indo-European languages in Europe, with the exception of Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian which are not part of the IE family. It’s interesting to see the notable relations between most of these languages though.First pic is between the Latin-Romance languages.Second is between the Germanic languages.Third and fourth are between the Slavic and Baltic languages.Fifth is between two Celtic languages, as with the Finno-Ugric languages, and Albanian and Greek which are their own branches in the overarching Indo-European stream.Some interesting things of note…The word for sun in most of these languages revolve around the sound [sol] with some variations.Ex.) sol (Norwegian), sole (Italian), soleil (French), solèy (Haitian Creole), saulė (Lithuanian), slŭntse (Bulgarian).Words for referring to oneself in most of these languages begin with a front vowel sound [i] or [e] or a palatal approximant [j] (mostly slavic).Ex.) eu (Romanian), já (Czech), io (Italian), ego (Greek), es (Latvian), ég (Icelandic), jag (Swedish).The word pertaining to water in most of these languages with begins straight out with the vowel [a] or a velarised to semi-velarised sound [w], [u], or [v] usually followed by [a] or [o], even in non IE ones listed.Ex.) acqua (Italian), vaser (Yiddish), water (English), woda (Polish), vann (Norwegian), vode (Slovenian), uisce (Irish), ujë (Albanian), víz (Hungarian).The word for ‘eye’ tends to revolve around beginning (or nearly beginning) with the sound range from [a] to [o] and containing some form of a back of the mouth consonant like [k], [g], or [h]. Ex.) oculus (Latin), akis (Lithuanian), öga (Swedish), llygad (Welsh), oko (Serbian).The word for ‘white’ tends to involve beginning with a front consonant labial sound or a combined sound with a labial consonant [b], [p], [v], [f], [w]. Ex.) blanco (Spanish), biela (Slovak), wit (Dutch), gwyn (Welsh), hvid (Danish), baltas (Lithuanian), bardhë (Albanian). Surprisingly this is even across the Finno-Ugric languages which aren’t even Indo-European in heritage, fehér (Hungarian), valge (Estonian), valkoinen (Finnish).The number 4, tends to begin with a front labial sound or a combined sound with such: [p], [b], [f], [v], [kw].Ex.) catro (Galician), quatre (Catalan), pedwar (Welsh), katër (Albanian), četiri (Croatian), vier (Afrikaans), fjórir (Icelandic). SO COOL*rolls around in languages**rolls with you* Languages!!!!!!!!Proto-Indo-European roots:sun: *sawelI: *eg-, *egomwater: *wodṛ or akwāeye: *okwoswhite: *kweit-, *bhḷnkos (cf. “blank”) - the Finno-Ugric words don’t come from these, though, that’s just coincidentalfour: *kwetweros, *kwetwores - initial /kw/ goes to /p/ in Brythonic, /f/ in Germanic -- source link
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