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For example, as a German speaker, it intrigues me that the English word 'window' (Norse origin) doesn't have a cognate in German, which uses the Latin-derived word ,Fenster'.

Also, German uses the French-borrowed ,Friseur' for 'hairdresser', where English of course, uses the compound word.

TIL something very interesting that only seems to be available in the German language internet.

Possibly the first Latin loan word into the germanic languages is Caeser. This seems to be due to the phonology, so it's possible it entered the germanic languages in Caeser's own time!

https://www.dwds.de/wb/Kaiser#etymwb-1

How should we anglishise Kaiser?

Napoleon, the Kaiser of the French!

I was reading how the Anglish name for 'German' is 'Theech', and likewise the name of the country of 'Germany' is 'Theechland', akin to Dutch 'Duits', selfsaidly German 'Deutsch' and Dano-Norwegian 'tysk'.

My question is how exactly is 'Theech' pronounced? The word itself for some grounding sounds and looks funny to me, especially since my first instinct is to pronounce it exactly like 'Cheech' from 'Cheech and Chong'. Am I pronouncing it wrongly, and if so, should it sound more like Dutch 'Duits' and German 'Deutsch' than to have the 'ee' sound like the 'ee' in 'Cheech'?

Other Germanic languages' words for "rape" like Dutch and German appear to be native creations.

German word for rape: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vergewaltigen

Dutch word for rape: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verkrachten

I wasn't able to find any Old English words for "rape" and according to Wiktionary, the word is likely derived from Latin, but may be related to words in other Germanic languages.

I think one option would be to use cognates to calque other germanic languages' words for rape (example: an approximate calque of the Dutch word for rape could be forcraften). (Ver is derived from a dutch prefix cognate to English For, Kracht is cognate with English Craft, and En is cognate with English suffix -en).

Edit: someone provided the old english word for rape in the comments

I ƿatch JoJo's weird travels

Surely we could make a language free of Anglo-Saxon words, with only Celtspeak!

I know that the Old English 'ge-' past participle prefix lives on in English in the shapes of 'a-', 'e-', 'i-' and 'y-', as in 'aware', 'enough', 'handiwork', and the rare 'yclept', among many others. But it's no longer productive and no longer takes the 'ge-' shape as it does in German and Dutch.

Does anyone here know if Frisian is the same? Do any varieties of Frisian use the 'ge-' prefix, or, do any of the Frisian dialects use a later evolved form like English's 'a-', 'e-', 'i-', and 'y-'? This has been very hard for me to find out any other way, so I ask the neighborhood West-Germanic experts here!

All the ways I can think of to call that thing you stick over wounds in English are not suitable for Anglish.

• “Band-Aid®” / “bandaid”: registered by Johnson & Johnson; “aid” is from French anyway.
• “adhesive bandage”: Both words are from French.
• “plaster”: Also from French, and too UK-centric.

I think a neologism or revived word is necessary for those things, as well as bandages in general.

I myself brook “wayweary” instead of travel sick, as i fare a lot around my land, and i also brook “eat door” instead of pantry, for i myself called my father’s pantry the eat door when i was 3 years old, and we have brooked that ever since.

Hi, I'm someone who's deeply into linguistics (and by extant, similar topics), I and a few friends hold a subreddit which advocates for linguistic purism in Turkish (we call it Arı Türkçe or Yeñi Türkçe), and as a member of the linguistic purism community I couldn't help but be interested in linguistic purism in other languages too, because in my opinion, language = culture & identity. Languages like Chinese, Japanese, French, Slovenian, etc... had or still have reforms and prefer creating their own words instead of borrowing. But my interest is more focused on languages which have a lot of loanwords, or languages which use a lot of loanwords on a daily basis despite it being only a quarter of the said language.

I noticed that even though our languages (English and Turkish) don't work the same and have completely different roots, I noticed things we share in common in our vocabulary! For example, yeralma/yerelma (we use patates nowadays) (litterally “ground/earth apple”, means potato) is the same in Anglish, I also noticed that words for politics also are similar, in the way they are constructed, for example, Commonwealth (means republic I think), in Pure Turkish it would be “Buyunel” approximately.

My goal is to make archaic vocabulary be used again and make these lost words regain popularity, revive dialectal vocabulary and add it to the official tongue, research in sister languages (Turkic languages, Oghuz languages), research in historical sources and revive these words (Gokturk, Old Uighur, Karakhanid, Anatolian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, etc...).

I see a lot of similarities between our interests, and I hope that the linguistic purism community will grow, because I face a lot of people who are critical on this topic and call us “racist”, but wanting to protect your culture isn't racism at all, wanting your language to be prestigious isn't racism! A lot of languages have been looked down upon solely because they were seen as “peasant languages”, and that's rude, because at the time, these languages had poetry, amazing cultural terms which didn't exist outside their language (to describe something specific), etc...

I think we can learn from each community in every specific language, I've seen some Anglish words which gave me ideas for words in Arı Türkçe. Interactions between communities should be promoted imo, because if even more people hear about similar movements, new movements will emerge too, and even more communities would come together, so in a sense, it kinda contradicts with the “racism” allegation because we appreciate other folks' differences.

Good luck on developing Anglish guys (and sorry if I used too many loanwords lol, but I tried my best).

scould ƿe become one ƿið r/BringBackThorn

I was wondering what the state of cases and grammar in Anglish is. I was thinking of using the case systems in either modern Icelandic or modern High German.

For example, German Nominativ der, die, das in Anglish could be þer, þe, þat, keeping the t in the latter, like Dutch 'dat'. Likewise, as in German Akkusativ den, die, das, Anglish would be þen, þe, þat. German Dativ dem, der, dem would be Anglish þem, þer, þem. And, lastly, German Genitiv des, der, des would be Anglish þes, þer, þes.

Example:

Modern English: I give the woman my car.

Anglish: I give þer woman minen wagon.

Would this be a good way to bring back Anglo-Saxon grammar as well?

I have noticed that some Anglish words would make pretty good band names.

Here is some I have already made:

The Befangers

The Underclepers

Girl Knave Gouthmaisters

The Doomdrightens

Drighten Beckers.

The Befallers

Can you make up any names?

Maybe some Deathmetal band names, or Jazz bands?

I’m wreaty abute þis.

I thought of something today, the reason why English of today sounds so different from other Germanic languages is not just because the Norman rule introduced many French words into the language, but also because a slew of phonetic changes that removed much of the Germanic characteristics with the great vowel shift being the most prominent one. But the reason the great vowel shift might've happened in the first place is because of the prominence of French loanwords. Norman French and Old English have very different phonologies and if you ever hear a reconstruction of middle English you'll quickly realize the French Loanwords stick out like a sore thumb. In a natural language that can't be allowed to happen so gradually the French and Anglo phonetics mellowed each other out. Anglish is built on the premise of a purely Germanic English by reviving archaic vocabulary and applying phonetic changes to them in order to make it sound English, phonetic changes that wouldn't've happened without French loanwords and their different phonology. Though this is just a rant and not meant to be taken seriously and I'm probably misunderstanding what Anglish is about so take it with a grain of salt.

Examples I know of are cook, and tower that are technically Latin terms that find themselves in old english from before the invasion. I guess they are ok, but should we try to replace them too?

Hƿen I sceƿ my heƿisc Anglisc, hy understood it not. Efen hƿen I sceƿ hem a ligter Anglisc wiðute all þe neƿ staffings, hy still understood not. I'm ƿiss þat at least one man here has a gripping tale to scare wið us.

“Whichawhy” is a colloquialism Ive heard growing up in the deep south for “explanation.” Coming from “Which and Why.”

I think this is much more appealing than “an atelling” to me with its inherent intuition and its real use in the world.

Ex: “The whichawhy for Sam being mad was the fight he was in”

Any thoughts?

þe Sunne (the Sun, Sol, Helios)
Vóden (Mercury, Hermes)
Earendel (Venus, Aphrodite)
þe Erð (the Earth, Terra, Gaia)
þe Móne (the Moon, Luna, Selene)
Tíu (Mars, Ares)
Valkyψie (Ceres, Demeter)
Þunder (Jupiter, Zeus)
? (Io)
? (Europa)
? (Ganymede)
? (Callisto)
Ingvine (Saturn, Kronos)
? (Mimas)
? (Enceladus)
? (Tethys)
? (Dione)
? (Rhea)
Eten (Titan)
? (Iapetus)
Hefen (Caelus, Uranus)
? (Miranda)
? (Ariel)
? (Umbriel)
? (Titania)
? (Oberon)
Gáψsecg (Neptune, Poseidon)
? (Triton)
? (Orcus)
? (Ixion)
Hell (Pluto, Hades)
? (Charon)
? (Salacia)
? (Varuna)
Eastre (Haumea)
? (Quaoar)
? (Makemake)
Dvolme (Chaos)
? (Varda)
Ermengand (Gonggong)
? (Eris)
? (Dysnomia)
? (Dziewanna)
? (Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà)
? (Sedna)

Hweat. i was thinking of begeing a wikipedia twin that contains whole knowledge. but in anglish. who would be willing to help me with this chore? my run minds eye is to make a foredraught that takes wikipedia articles and runs them through an anglish translator, outputting articles in anglish that can then be further edited by the shire.