tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690110675685389513.post1891495792206987067..comments2024-03-27T21:54:06.467-07:00Comments on Wordlady: Happy Kindred Day!Katherine Barberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06775090067364948963noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690110675685389513.post-28126440334405793842011-02-18T07:42:09.963-08:002011-02-18T07:42:09.963-08:00Hello, again,
I have long wondered about some i...Hello, again, <br /><br /> I have long wondered about some infinitive verbs in English which seem based on a (past) participle ... like "terminated", say ? <br /><br /> I though that to be peculiar to English, but I'm looking at these Italian words "Il scientifico" (it might be "lo scientifico", as it starts with an "s"), or "la chimica", where the nouns seem to be based on adjectives ... Not that an adjective can't arise before the corresponding noun, but it still gives (me) a strange, "back formation" feel(ing). <br /><br /> Could you comment on something like that in a future post, please ?<br /><br /> Thanks again!E.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11205729601535947534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690110675685389513.post-30231897230974620842011-02-18T07:17:09.834-08:002011-02-18T07:17:09.834-08:00No, family and female are unrelated.No, family and female are unrelated.Katherine Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06775090067364948963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690110675685389513.post-68847893777609723372011-02-18T07:01:09.489-08:002011-02-18T07:01:09.489-08:00OK, thank you!
I was also wondering if "fami...OK, thank you!<br /><br />I was also wondering if "familia" and "femela" were related, as I thought to have once read.E.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11205729601535947534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690110675685389513.post-64923860373635197182011-02-18T06:55:03.457-08:002011-02-18T06:55:03.457-08:00Hello, ET.
Latin words dislodged a lot of Anglo-Sa...Hello, ET.<br />Latin words dislodged a lot of Anglo-Saxon words after the Norman Conquest, through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, when it was very trendy to show off that one knew Latin. Some of the Anglo-Saxon words died altogether, but many of them, like "kin" in this case, survived to give English its particularly rich hoard of synonyms.Katherine Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06775090067364948963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690110675685389513.post-10698679572735033152011-02-18T05:51:55.546-08:002011-02-18T05:51:55.546-08:00Ooops ...
I was pretty sure I had read about a c...Ooops ... <br /><br />I was pretty sure I had read about a connection between the word "femela" (or something like that, for "woman") and the word for "family" being connected ... <br /><br /> Hmm ... <br /><br /> And how would a Latin term dislodge an Anglo-Saxon one ?<br /><br /> Thanks!E.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11205729601535947534noreply@blogger.com