Ld Flashcards
Who created the Kurgan Hypothesis
Marija Gimbutas
What is the Kurgan Hypothesis?
located the speakers of PIE in the vast steppes north of the Black and Caspian seas (today’s Ukraine and southern Russia) around 3700 BC.
What does Kurgan mean?
Turkish word for a tumulus (burial mound)
Sūnus (Lithuanian)
Son
Son in Lithuanian
Sūnus
Esmi (PIE)
I am
Esu (Lithuanian)
I am
Penki (Lithuanian)
Five
How many cases in PIE
8
Languages with a dual case
Slovene, some dialects of Lithuanian, Ancient Greek, PIE
Rudenėja (Lithuanian)
Beginning of autumn as manifested in nature
Elävä (Finnish)
Living
How many cases in Lithuanian?
7
How many cases in Polish?
7
Nowak (English equivalent)
Newman
Kowalski meaning
Derivation of the word for smith in Polish
Jankowski (English equivalent)
Johnson
Krawczyk (English equivalent)
Tailor
Faber (Latin; English equivalent)
Smith
MacGowan (English equivalent)
Smith
Viit (Estonian)
Five
Viisi (Finnish)
Five
What is Khanty?
A Uralic language family
How many people speak Southern Khanty?
None. It’s extinct.
Koti (Finnish)
Home
How many people speak Komi-Zyrian?
Nearly 100,000
Vit (Komi)
Five
Öt (Hungarian)
Five
How many cases in Finnish?
15
What is Scouse?
Accent and dialect associated with Liverpool
When did Slovenes settle into Slovenia?
Sixth century
Why is Slovenia so linguistically diverse?
It’s at the crossroads of many different languages plus mountains and other natural barriers
vrtíčkar (slovene)
strictly speaking no more than a hobby gardener with an allotment, but the word also suggests that the person is more interested in spending time drinking beer with other vrtíčkars than in growing vegetables and flowers. It could be extended in English to refer to people with any hobby that’s a cover for conviviality.
What is Polari?
Form of slang or cant most famously used in gay subcultures
Where does the word Polari come from?
Parlare
Who was Ľudovít Štúr?
Man credited with creating a unified Slovak language
Who is credited with creating a unified Slovak language?
Ľudovít Štúr
Prozvonit (Slovak)
To make someone’s phone ring just once in the hope that they will call back (or sometimes as a coded message). Surprisingly many languages have words for this practice, e.g. Spanish dar un toque ‘give a knock’.
(Slovak) To make someone’s phone ring just once in the hope that they will call back (or sometimes as a coded message).
Prozvonit
What does Faroe mean?
Far (sheep) ø (island)
How many cases in Faroese?
Four
Who is Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb?
Man responsible for the modern orthography of Faroese
Why is Faroese so hard to read?
Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb decided that it should be spelled as it was written in the past, not how it was actually pronounced in his lifetime
svørð (Faroese)
Sword
Sword in Faroese
svørð
Maelstrom word origin
It might come from Faroese
Geci (Hungarian)
Very offensive Hungarian insult
control etymology
contreroulle or counter-roll a duplicate of a roll or other document, which was kept for purposes of cross-checking. At its origins, the word first meant “verification,” but by the late sixteenth century it had come to encompass the direction, management, and surveillance that verification required.
What does inside baseball mean?
minutiae and detailed inner workings of a system that are only interesting to, or appreciated by, experts, insiders, and aficionados
Ela (Greek)
come/come on
Aniazo (Greek)
I greave
