Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 969 of 2491 23 November 2009 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
lyn
'lightning' - Danish
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formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6214 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 970 of 2491 24 November 2009 at 10:20am | IP Logged |
fulmo
"lightning", Esperanto
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 971 of 2491 24 November 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
der Blitz
'lightning' - German
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Aucassin Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5496 days ago 22 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 972 of 2491 25 November 2009 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
fulgur
'lightening' - Latin
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formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6214 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 973 of 2491 25 November 2009 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
tximist
"lightning", Basque
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 974 of 2491 26 November 2009 at 5:45am | IP Logged |
éclair m.
'lightning' - French. It also means "éclair", of course.
This misspelling is one of my biggest pet peeves. "Lightning" has two syllables, and refers to the weather phenomenon; "lightening" has three syllables, and refers to the act of making something lighter. I could almost go along with the popular idea these days of abandoning prescriptivism entirely, if it weren't for the words "lightening" and "nucular". It could just be a case of the language evolving without me, but I'm going to put up a fight anyways, at least for those two words. ;)
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formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6214 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 975 of 2491 26 November 2009 at 12:40pm | IP Logged |
ngèlé gbângà[/]
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 976 of 2491 26 November 2009 at 1:51pm | IP Logged |
eh, could you disclose where "ngèlé gbângà" comes from and what it means? Just 'lightning' in a local language somewhere in Congo or what?
Levitation - (several languages incl. English and French): the occult act of hovering in mid air, presumably because you somehow becomes weightless (Latin 'levis' = light)
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