Monthly Gleanings: December 2009
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
Anatoly Liberman responds to readers’ questions and comments.
Anatoly Liberman’s monthly gleanings.
Anatoly Liberman’s gleanings.
By Anatoly Liberman Squaw. My post on squaw produced some ripples. Three lawyers from Michigan gave me the lashing of their tongue(s). (I am sorry for the parentheses, but I always feel uncomfortable when I have to say something like: “Three people put their foot in their mouth.” Should it be feet and mouths?) Their […]
Anatoly Liberman’s monthy gleanings.
Anatoly’s monthly gleanings.
Anatoly answers questions.
Anatoly answers questions about word origins.
Anatoly answers questions.
Anatoly’s second installment of January gleanings.
Anatoly’s January gleanings.
Anatoly’s November gleanings.
Hello. In connection a previous post, I received two questions about the word ‘hello’. The first concerned the repertory of h-interjections in the languages of the world. In 1924 Ernst Schwentner brought out a booklet titled ‘The Primary Interjections in the Indo-European Languages’ (in German).
Anatoly Liberman answers questions based on last month’s posts.