http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Folksprak/_Referenzgrammatik/_Phonetik/ This page contains some of the most interesting examples of Germanic evolutions of vowels...
... meanings ... arisen ... [n] ... Thanks and welcome. Just curious, does your name have anything to do with the Gothic word for people? "thiuda"? R...
I've been translating some Viking sagas. Here are a few words I have used, any help or other suggestions appreciated. BOSARDIG a. = vicious, malicious NL...
... Sorry, that's just my username. thiudans is Gothic for king or national ruler, which would be different from PGmc. *kuningaz which if I understand...
Can anyone point me to any websites or attempts to create a word-order based interlanguage using Proto-Germanic roots? There was a latin one a while ago but I...
... if ... king ... more ... OK, thanks for that, the word "thiudans" did sound familiar. I have just found it in my Gothic wordlist. You seem knowledgable in...
thank you. I have hobby interests in Gmc. and moderate yahoogroups theudiskon and gothic-l. professions don't really allow for the language construction or...
Hi. By word-order based I mean that it uses minimal inflection and more word-order to define syntax. By thematic vowels I mean vowels associated with the stem,...
Novial is an interesting conlang. It is in many ways a "euroclone" like Interlingua, Ido, Esperanto, Lingua Franca Nova etc. But it is less-romance and more...
I will look into that Novial. I've noticed and not without some pleasure the maintaining of this distinctly "germanic" sense in your Folkspraak. I think this...
Hi Michael, Not as far as I know. If you want to find out more about the Beothuk Indians, check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beothuk Bye, Stephan...
Interesting "timmermann". I had thought that the German cognate to EN timber, (DE Zimmer), had completely semantically drifted from the meaning shared by the...
This concept doesn't seem to have a common word among the source languages: EN plumber NL loodgieter (literally "lead pourer") DE Klempner SV rörmokare,...
... I don't think lead is appropriate either since nowadays we use copper or plastic. I also thought of pîpinstaller (pipe-installer) verbs - SV installera,...
... OK. ... Looks good, but the agent-noun for "installere" should probably be "installerer" or "installatör". I prefer "installatör" -- the Latinate agent...
There is confusion in english about the meaning "pipe" but originally this refers only to the mouth instrument, for smoking or whistling. Also it is listed so...
Right the FS word "pîp" should probably mean tobacco pipe or musical instrument. And "lêding" has more than one meaning and doesn't specifically mean...
LA camera is DE Kammer. Germanic words (Protogermanic based words) are the most interesting for me at the moment, therefore my list contains only two words ...
... musical ... a "tubfrau" ... I think in this case "ror" or similar should also be considered as a valid FS word DE Röhre, SV rör, DN rør. "tub" IMHO...
I agree that, "pip" (< pîp) should be a smoking / musical instrument, whereas "led" (< lð) should be the stem for "(to) lead". ("tub" is Romance, so I...
I don't know, Germanic language speakers have been borrowing from their more civilised Roman neighbours since well before Proto-Germanic split up into the...
If you want a native germanic word for "installeren", then "instelle" seems to work, and have the advantage of looking very very similar to its Romance...
In fact, I think DE "Kammer" is from LA "camer-a", which is from GR "kamar-a", which is from IE "kam-" (as I found out on Etymonline now). But DE "Saal" is...
Combining primitive words like stelle, lege, sete with primitive prefixes (from primitive particles) I imagine very controversial, since they might mean many...
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