A room for linguists and others who would like to share and discuss nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
Fwd: Hindi DOST 'friend' (< Persian) - cognate to the Old Indian word JUS 'to choose' - CHOOSE & JUS originating from the same Indo-European word (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)
Fwd: BAHUVRĪHI : coined by Sanskrit grammarians for compounds with a possessive meaning : LIONHEART ("having a lion's heart") German ROTKÄPPCHEN (via http://friendfeed.com/diction...)