Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2020

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July 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 1

  1. Looking for Ancient Greek diminutive form

July 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 2

  1. "High-concept" movies etc
  2. Probationary Sponsorship

July 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 3

  1. Formerly known as
  2. How many English words of each kind??

July 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 4

  1. Nicholas II = shit? (Hungarian cacophone/pun)

July 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 5

  1. Russian and Latvian question

July 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 6

  1. What major languages keep the tongue in the general neighborhood of a neutral position the highest percent of the time?
  2. I want a Hokkien name

July 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 10

  1. 2d vs. 2nd & 3d vs. 3rd
  2. Soursop in danish.
  3. Faroese: Gróðrarbotnur

July 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 12

  1. English word meaning unskilled worker

July 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 16

  1. What language is this?
  2. Meaning and Usage of "chiagne e fotte"?
  3. England language history

July 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 18

  1. Hi! ^_^ I am further developing my English

July 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 19

  1. Fake Old English

July 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 20

  1. The Tyger

July 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 21

  1. suicide terminology, Robin Williams

July 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 22

  1. Does anyone has a list of languages that are both polysynthetic and agluttinative at the same time?

July 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 23

  1. Boys and bies (Forster)
  2. Japanese vocabulary.
  3. What is so significant about the phrase "Aaron earned an iron urn" by the people of Baltimore?
  4. Y / I are interchangeable, in some pairs of words, e.g. in lucky vs. luckiness. Are W / U interchangeable, as well, in any pair of words ?

July 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 24

  1. English IPA for this?

July 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 25

  1. Chinese question

July 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 27

  1. Fecundity

July 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 28

  1. Entrenched clause in Spanish?
  2. Hebrew: the "ch" in the Biblical word Pacheggen (in the Book of Esther):

July 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 29

  1. Definition of the word "similetic"

July 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 30

  1. Adjective alternative for tiger like