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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1 of 18 11 July 2011 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Let's try this (well, let's see if anybody but me wants to try this)!
Another of those "write a word in a post" games, but this one is EDUCATIONAL! I write a word and then someone else writes a word. The word one writes must be derived from the previous word using one of the following rules: 1: You can write an older form of the word (such as Latin "cantare" from French "chanter"). 2: You can write a newer form of the word (such as French "chanter" from Latin "cantare"). 3: You can write the word as loaned into another language (such as Cantonese "呔" from English "tie"). 4: You can write the original word of a loan word (such as English "tie" from Cantonese "呔"). 5: You can write a different word that shares at least one morpheme of the word (such as "compression" from "impress" or "frienemy" from "friend"). In languages that allow composite words, this is allowed (such as Swedish "arbetarrörelse" from "arbete" or for that matter "arbete" from "arbetarrörelse") Non-rulatory guidlines: 1: Try not to skip a bunch of steps. Instead of skipping directly from English "black" to French "blanche", do some research and find the shorter step and let someone else take over from there. Don't try to impress with long etymological chains. 2: Do try to impress with little-known connections and surprising twists. 3: Watch out for dead ends. It's very hard to go from Cantonese "呔" to anything but English "tie", the word it came from (the character as used in Mandarin has no etymological connection to the Cantonese word). Loan words will be particularly prone to this, unless they're loans into languages that form composite words (which will provide a method of switching root as per rule 5). 4: If you can't come up with anything and it seems nobody else will either, you can step back a step or two and take a different route. But don't step too far and don't do this because you thought of a cool thing about a word two pages ago. 5: In case of parallel posts, subsequent posters can choose the coolest one to spin off of. 6: Feel free to provide some additional information as to the history of the word or other tidbits to make it even more interesting. At the very least, inform us of the language and meaning if it's a non-English word (or even an obscure English one). 7: Do be clear of the exact word in case of homographs. Don't just write "too"; explain if it's the "too" of "too much" or the "too" of "me, too". Unless there are any questions, I'll go ahead and start. Actually, even if there are questions I'll start anyway and we'll clear and/or change things up as we go along. Or maybe this thread will just die alone and unloved. The first word is: (English) String The noun, as in a length of. Edited by Ari on 11 July 2011 at 10:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5335 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 2 of 18 11 July 2011 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Latin stringere, meaning to draw tight, bind,, press together 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 3 of 18 11 July 2011 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Stringendo (Italian): when the musicians in an orchestra play faster and faster ... so to say squeezing the notes together
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 18 11 July 2011 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Great word! Maybe a change from "root" in rule 5 to "morpheme" would be a good thing? That way we could go from "stringendo" to "crescendo", for example. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5321 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 6 of 18 11 July 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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How about Stringtanga? It's a pseudo-English German word for thong.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 7 of 18 11 July 2011 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||
That'd work from "string", but from "stringendo" it's a pretty large leap. I changed the "root" in rule 5 to "morpheme" and accordingly I continue with: crescendo Italian. Music term, meaning "growing" as in "becoming louder". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5883 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 8 of 18 28 September 2012 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Crescendo comes from the Latin word cresco related to creare which gives us the English creature.
I'm not sure if this goes against Non-rulatory guideline 1, but this thread was very silent, anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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