Comments by "Yamazakura v. Lyfflandt" (@BiglerSakura) on "RobWords" channel.

  1. The older is the variant of a language, the closer it is to other Indo-European languages. For example, SE (m) and SEO (f) in old English, compare it to old Russian words meaning "this": SEY (m) and SEYA (f), in modern Russian they can be used in "high style" speech. THAT probably corresponds with ETOT, also meaning "this", or TOT ("that").
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  2. It's worth mentioning that Mendelevium is named after the scientist who created the periodic table itself. Also countries: Ruthenium - Russia, Nihonium - Japan etc.
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  3.  @exvagoergosum  That's the city of Baton Rouge in the US :)
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  4. You can always make one spaghetto multiple. :)
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  5. "Zenith" is a result of the misreading of "m" for "ni" at manuscript copying. In Arabic this astronomical term is "zamt".
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  6. A good example from Wikipedia: "47 Ronin is a 2013 American fantasy action film ... a fictionalized account of the forty-seven rōnin, a real-life group of masterless samurai "
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  7. However, even the languages that have done away with gender or never have had it, may have concepts of "masculinity" or "femininity" of some inanimate objects, like a ship is referred to as "she" or the Sun as "he" in English of "sister cities" etc.
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  8.  @zeitgeist27  Octopussi ? :)
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  9.  @VEGETA19954  Thank you for the clarification. So, something is related anyway :)
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  10.  @bobeczek01  Rus' --> Rousia --> Rusia/Russia/Rossia, this is how the name evolved via the Greek language, and Ruthenia is its Latin version. The element was discovered in the Ural mountains and researched at Kazan University, so obviously it was named in honour of Russia (and maybe Tatarstan :-) As for the historical ancient Rus, from its very beginning it included a great deal of the territories that are presently parts of Russia, e.g. Smolensk, the Rostov land where Moscow is located, the lands in the Don-Kuban area, and Novgorod which though separated itself from Rus but the history of the Rus statehood started there. It's quite obvious what and who drives the current politically charged rhetoric, but none of the modern East Slavic countries, Russia, Belarus or Ukraine has lesser or greater share in the ancient Rus legacy.
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  11. It's worth mentioning that the word "viking" itself is related to the place names ending "-wick" or "-wich" in Britain or "-vik" in Scandinavian countries. As "vik" means "a harbour, a haven", the occupation (vocation?) of "viking" is raiding coastal towns, so a "vikingr" is a man who practices that.
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  12. Trump who designated English as the official US language is himself of German origin :)
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  13. "Anime" may be treated differently because originally it came into Japanese from English. Other Japanese words are often treated correctly (without -s) like in this example from Wikipedia: 47 Ronin is a 2013 American fantasy action film ... a fictionalized account of the forty-seven rōnin, a real-life group of masterless samurai Though it would be funny to see in English such forms like samuraitachi :)
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  14. As for wiving, some languages have differentiated verbs meaning "to marry". Men do "wiving", women do "husbanding".
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  15. The grammatical category of dual (as opposed to single and plural) is a whole different topic :)
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  16. There are rudiments of ancient articles like "-to" endings/particles or the final "-y(a)" in "-skiy" / "-skaya" adjective endings.
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  17.  @simonjtaylor212  I remember seeing "moneys" referring to different/separate sums of money handled by an organisation for different purposes.
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  18. Concerning plurals of originally Japanese words. Normally, Japanese nouns have no plural form, just quantities or words like "many" can be added to same singular (or, say, "uncountable") nouns. This results in no adding "s" in English. An example from Wikipedia: "47 Ronin is a 2013 American fantasy action film ... a fictionalized account of the forty-seven rōnin, a real-life group of masterless samurai "
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  19. What is now roughly a part of Byelorussia ("White Russia") used to be called Black Russia, and there was also Red Russia and maybe some other colour variations. But it's not about some actual colours or ideas of "purity" in case of white etc. In the old times certain colours were associated with the compass points - East, West, South, North.
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  20. Was it a subject by itself, "Latin roots"? Like not learning the Latin language but finding out what English words contain Latin roots?
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  21. 5:57 - Shouldn't the word "French" be in red?
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  22. The final version of Þ as shown at 1:36 - と
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  23. Yes, the modern commonly used month names in Japanese are just the "[Number]-moon" model, and in Chinese even days of the week are "[Number]-day". However, at least in Japanese there are also "romantic" antient names, like those in Old English, and they are also sometimes printed in calendars.
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  24.  @Wyraxx  Looks like Karl Ernst Claus had a different opinion on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst_Claus In 1840, Claus, received a substantial amount of platinum ore samples for his studies from the Ural Mountains and the St Petersburg Mint and started working on chemistry and isolation of noble metals, in particular rhodium, iridium, osmium, and to a lesser extent, palladium and platinum. In 1844, he discovered a new chemical element, which he named ruthenium, after Ruthenia, the latinised name for Russia and the Latin name of Rus', by which Сlaus meant the Russian Empire and Russia in particular.[2][6][10][11] Choosing the name for the new element, he stated: "I named the new body, in honour of my Motherland, ruthenium. I had every right to call it by this name because Mr. Osann relinquished his ruthenium and the word does not yet exist in chemistry."
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  25. Also pączki are plural. Singular is pączek.
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  26. @FormulaProg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump
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  27.  @anjakeller6612  that's what Lucas actually did with the Japanese word "jidai".
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  28.  @benjaminhuether3846  Quite possible that loan word handling depends on the perception of the receiver. "Samurai" may be understood as a social class, like "the knighthood" in history, in the academic context, while "ninja(s)" have better absorbed into the mass culture.
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  29. Such stories can be found in many cultures: Lieutenant Kijé (Поручик Киже) The first appearance of the anecdote is in Vladimir Dahl's "Stories of the time of Paul I", a short piece published in the journal Russian Antiquity in 1870; he reported it as told by his father, Jochan Christian von Dahl (1764-1821). In this original version, a clerk miswrites an order promoting several ensigns (praporshchiki) to second lieutenants (podporuchiki): instead of "praporshchiki zh ... - v podporuchiki" ("as to Ensigns (names), [they are promoted] to Second Lieutenants"), he writes "praporshchik Kizh, ... - v podporuchiki" ("Ensign Kizh, (other names) [are promoted] to Second Lieutenants"). The Emperor Paul decides to promote the nonexistent Kizh to first lieutenant (poruchik); he quickly rises through the ranks to staff captain and full captain, and when he is promoted to colonel the emperor commands that Kizh appear before him. Of course no Kizh can be found; the military bureaucrats go through the paper trail and discover the original mistake, but they decide to tell the emperor that Kizh has died. "What a pity," the emperor says, "he was a good officer." (from Wikipedia)
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  30. A coven of witches ?
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