#Germanic

Danny Bate

DannyBate4

The modal verb 'can' has changed a bit over the history of English.We see from its Old English ancestor, cunnan, that its meaning was once 'to know' rather than 'to

David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

I like to remind my wife (born Angélica Maldonado González) that "González" kind of means "son of Gandalf."See, "Gonzalo" comes from "Gonzalvo," which in turn ultimately derives from the Germanic

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

Last night I opened YT and saw the link to a video suggestion about Hermann Der Cherusker and “The Teutoburger Forest Massacre”.I started watching it and it was the perfect

NotTheMacAnon

NotTheMacAnon1

Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating. a clear intellect; a clear head A D I S C R I M I N A T I O N I

Krister Vasshus

KristerVasshus

No one believes in nisser more fervently than my 5-yearold. Nisser are Scandinavian house gods, and although most scholars consider the term "nisse" to be a hypocorism of Nikolaus, assosiated

Owen Williams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

OwsWills

The word "Wales" reveals the origins of Britain, and a gnawing history of Anglo-Saxon oppression…It was used by invading tribes to mean 'foreigners' or 'outsiders,' despite Brythonic peoples (latterly Welsh,

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thuletide

THREAD:>The basics of nationalism and the formation of ethnic/racial identity.after posting on twitter for some time, I've noticed that many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of nationalism and identity, and

Bad Linguistics and Orwell Takes (莫去我厝拜年)

Bad_Linguistics

[PINNED THREAD]Hello, welcome to Bad Linguistics Takes!This thread will explain several things about this account. Please read if you'd like!Any corrections or additions will be at the end of the

Rory Turnbull

_roryturnbull

German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English. What happened? A thread. /1 English

Antifa Tractor Total Landscaping Shark

DarthMamaShark

Hey kids, guess what - do the things you're interested in in school. Folks will tell you you will NEVER use them, but here's a little story.My folks made me

Justin Sytsma 🇨🇦

justinsytsma

I saw a tweet that talked about how the word "tribalism" is racist. A short on my cognitive process that may be helpful for some: My first internal reaction

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psychonot23

Alright Left we need to talk about DC. First and foremost we need to be mindful of of the function of Fascism in that especially in the age of the

Uriah

crimkadid

Trump's 2016 primary campaign (not the general) had an ethnic angle that went largely untalked about. It revealed a cultural split in the American Midwest between the descendants of Germanic

DIAS_SCS Library

SCSLibrary

Heinrich Wagner was born in Zürich on the 16 January 1923. He studied Germanic and Indo-European philology in Zürich University between 1941–1945, where he was also taught Old Irish and

The Male Spirit

Themalespirit

"As we dine in Valhalla,Our Brothers shall join us"What is Valhalla?And can us more mortals ever hope to get there?Let's find out.Thread *Disclaimer*This is my interpretation of the myths and

James Harland

DJMHarland

I want to talk a bit about how Dr. Philip A. Shaw of the University of Leicester, primarily a philologist and scholar of onomastics by training, wrote for his PhD

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