I’m creating this thread to hopefully promote a bit more activity in the community.
If you want to talk about something Linguistics-related, but for some reason you don’t want to create a new post just for that, feel free to post it here instead.
I’m creating this thread to hopefully promote a bit more activity in the community.
If you want to talk about something Linguistics-related, but for some reason you don’t want to create a new post just for that, feel free to post it here instead.
Curiously that “m” always loses one leg!
The association with ants is still transparent in a few Romance languages - like, in Spanish hormiga = ant, hormigazón = formication. Sadly Spanish loses the association with “fornigación” (fornication), as this sort of posh word used by the clergy often avoided the /f/→/h/→Ø shift. (It still almost works in Portuguese or in Italian.)