English Etymology
This common English verb denoting possession is, perhaps surprisingly, unrelated to Latin habeo, meaning the same thing.
What is have, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną. Grimm's Law predicts that a Latin cognate would begin with /k/, as in capio, take, hold, understand.
This variety of North American English is often diagnosed by its distinctive pronunciation of the vowels in words like about and write. The pronunciation is not actually unique to it, though.
What is Canadian English? (the phenomenon is called Canadian Raising)
Varieties of this Semitic language is spoken by hundreds of millions of people in North Africa and the Near East. Its standard variety has verb-subject-object word order.
What is Arabic?
There is a whole lot of diversity among Arabic varieties, though, to the extent where local varieties are often completely unintelligible to speakers of other Arabic varieties.
The earliest recognized form of this script was the Oracle bone script, which was used by diviners of the early Bronze Age.
What are Chinese Characters? Accept Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja, etc.
This gaudy looking building with terrifying elevators is the home of the math and statistics departments. It is scheduled to be demolished in the future.
What is Evans Hall?
This mineral was highly sought after in the premodern world as an essential nutrient. In light of its value, it has been speculated that Roman soldiers were either paid in this commodity or given allowances to buy it, hence its link to the English word salary, although these theories are not well substantiated.
What is salt. (cf. Latin sal, salt and salarium, salary)
The use of unconjugated be as an auxiliary denotes this kind of action in some AAVE, Caribbean, and Hiberno-English varieties.
e.g. I be told in my sleep to go to church.
(Green 2002:98)
What is a habitual action (i.e. an action that is performed routinely)
Pennsylvania Dutch, which is spoken in its namesake state as well as in parts of the Midwest, is better categorized instead as a variety of this language.
What is German? The name Dutch originally denoted a variety of continental Germanic peoples before being narrowed to those of the Netherlands.
Varieties of this script were used to write early Germanic languages such as Old English, Old Frisian, and Old Norse. Two well known varieties are known as the elder one and the younger one.
What are Runes? Accept Futhark, Futhorc, etc.
This is the action people are expected to perform on 4.0 Hill to secure that GPA.
What is to roll down?
The name of Tor-pen-how /tɹə'pɛnə/, a village in northern England, is sometimes said to derive from words in Old English, Welsh, and Old Norse all referring to this kind of geological formation. Funnily enough, no such formation seems to exist in Torpenhow.
What is a hill?
Varieties of English spoken in this country can make use of different sounds to American Englishes, such as the rolled r or the velar fricative ch in words such as loch.
What is Scotland?
This language is the most widely spoken Native American language in the United States. IT is largely spoken near the boundary of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. A 2015 census records 167,000 speakers.
What is Navajo?
This modern day script is commonly used to write Hindi, Nepali, Konkani, and other languages of the northern part of the Indian Subcontinent.
What is Devanagari?
Many other languages, such as Thai, Tibetan, Malayalam, and Burmese use scripts related to Devanagari.
Sather Tower is called the Campanile due to its resemblance to a building in this Italian city.
What is Venice?
The word honcho, meaning boss, comes from this language.
What is Japanese? honcho, from hanchoo, 班長, broken down into han, team, squad, division, and choo, leader.
Do the vowels in lot, thought, dawn, stock, and stalk all sound the same for you? If they do, just as they do for many other Californians, you might exhibit this merger/sound change.
This Bantu language serves as a lingua franca around the southeastern African coast. It has a lot of loanwords from Arabic, including the name of the language.
What is Swahili? Swahili comes from Arabic سَوَاحِلِىّ, sawāħilï, ‘of coasts.’
This script originated as a logography but also took on syllabic elements over time. It was originally used to write Sumerian and was later adapted to Akkadian, Hittite, and a variety of other early Near Eastern languages.
What is Cuneiform? Note: the scripts used to write Old Persian and Ugaritic, although similar looking, were functionally different.
Our school library system houses approximately this many books (± 2 million is fine)
What is 13.5 million?
The English word person isn't of Germanic origin, as you might suspect from the fact that it begins with a /p/. Although it did come from Latin through French, that doesn't seem to be the ultimate origin, either. Some speculate that Latin originally borrowed it from this long-extinct language of the Italian peninsula, in which it meant mask.
What is Etruscan. Cf. 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖, /pʰersu/
An English derived variety spoken in this part of the world is well-known for its variety of sentence final particles such as lah, leh, and hor, which can communicate a variety of meanings, including reassurance, to soften commands, mark questions, etc.
What is Singapore or Malaysia?
This island in the Pacific is home to enormous linguistic diversity, comprising over 1000 languages distributed into more than 20 language families by some counts.
What is New Guinea? (To compare, there are 5 language families represented in Europe: Indo European, Uralic, Basque, Turkic, and Semitic)
This script was devised by Sequoyah for the Native American language of the same name. Although it looks like the Latin Alphabet, it works very differently, being a syllabary.
What is the Cherokee Syllabary?
A pair of birds of this species nest in the Campanile. The current members of this pair are Annie and Allen.
What are peregrine falcons?