Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/July 2020

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 1

1. Looking for Ancient Greek diminutive form

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 2

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

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 3

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

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 4

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

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 5

1. Russian and Latvian question

July 6

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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 10

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

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 12

1. English word meaning unskilled worker

July 16

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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 18

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

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 19

1. Fake Old English

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 20

1. The Tyger

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 21

1. suicide terminology, Robin Williams

July 22

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

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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 24

1. English IPA for this?

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 25

1. Chinese question

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 27

1. Fecundity

July 28

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

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 29

1. Definition of the word "similetic"

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2020 July 30

1. Adjective alternative for tiger like