"praise Then Darkness"

How do you say “tree” in European languages

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perfect velvet

also! I just needed to look this up as a Hungarian, because yes, while the word sántál makes sense to me, it just sounds old school, we use sántít more nowadays

and ofc I needed to look it up in a Hungarian dictionary and let me nerd out about this one for a bit (bear with my English and the possibly wonky translation of this text)

so the word I looked up was sánta (lame), the noun from sántál/sántít

so basically,, Hungarian got the word from an old Slavic word group, possibly before the 11th century, when the Slavic nasal a still existed (btw if anyone knows about this nasal a, feel free to yap about it, I'm interested)

originally it used to mean something like to walk slowly, haltingly and then in Hungarian the meaning changed to to limp

and then some Slavic languages borrowed it back from Hungarian, apparently Serbo-Croatian and Slovene also have it as šantati

oh wow, I just had a szófosás here (basically a word for yapping in Hungarian, it literally means word-diarrhea)

Random Slovak š-words etymology:

Šajn (as in "nemám šajnu") — from German "(Geld)schein", the Austro-Hungarian banknote.

Šampón — from English "shampoo", from Indian "čāmpo" (to press)

Šanca — from French "cheance" (accident, luck), from Latin "cadentia" (falling) — used first for a good result when throwing a die.

Šanovať — from German "schön" (pretty)

Šantiť — from Hungarian "sántál" (to limp)

Šarkan — from Hungarian "sárkány" (dragon, virago, vixen, Xanthippe), from Proto-Turkic "siāŕgan" (carp, dragon)

Šarlatán — from German "Scharlatan", from Italian "ciarlatano", a blend of "ciarlatore" (chatterer) and "cerretano" (hawker), the latter coming from the village of Cerreto di Spoleto, known for its tricksters.

Šašo — from "šach" due to their clothes' black-and-white chessboard pattern

Šelma — from Middle High German "schelme" (plague)

Šovinizmus — from N. Chauvin, an excessively patriotic First French Republic soldier famous from the play "La Cocarde Tricolore"

Štamgast — from German "Stamm" (trunk, tribe) + "Gast" (guest)

Šuhaj — from Hungarian "suhanc", from "suhancár" (Swiss) since the Swiss often used to serve abroad as guards, mostly young men, hence the Slovak meaning

its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this, because all I can think about is an alternate timeline where the girlies got absolutely sauced on this book and instead of inventing the Omegaverse, people just wrote Kemmering AUs instead.

to be clear, Ursula K. LeGuin would hate this

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i literally just started listening to justb like three days ago but oh em gee this is so huge🥺

xlov: i'mma be

reading tlhod in every language I know

well, my Portuguese is not that good (yet), but I'll try

not now tho, I'm reading stuff for school now🥲

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