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Comment on Âdlantki word of the moment. by Muke

Muke — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:58:44 +0000

The plural’s just prušnis — nothin’ fancy.

Comment on Âdlantki word of the moment. by Esploranto

Esploranto — Sun, 29 May 2011 22:44:48 +0000

Very nice word, can’t say exactly why, but I really like how this word turned out, prušni seems a very interesting development of *proH₂-ǵnH₁-o-, what would its plural be?

I hope we can see more words like this one, very interesting.

Comment on Adjectives associating with ‘capillus’ in classical Latin. by Muke

Muke — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:40:53 +0000

Indeed!

Suetonius does comes somewhat after the date range I meant to cover in this post, though (which I seem to have neglected to specify, but was 1st c. BC).

Comment on Adjectives associating with ‘capillus’ in classical Latin. by Jacob Love

Jacob Love — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:48:38 +0000

Suetonius (Nero, section 51) describes Nero as “subflavo capillo.”

Comment on Cases in Drake. by Lexitechnia » Nother » Some Drake roots.

Lexitechnia » Nother » Some Drake roots. — Tue, 03 May 2011 22:34:48 +0000

[...] *bǐn- > PD *mən- > D mon- “to build” — miine “house” from the last Drake post is also from this root; compare Hebrew בנה bana [...]

Comment on Scyllas in Ovid. by Lexitechnia » Latin » Adjectives associating with ‘capillus’ in classical Latin.

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:21:32 +0000

[...] — purple, once in Ovid, once in [...]

Comment on 'Abhinc' in Horace. by Lexitechnia » Piataia » On Ibran orthography (a start)

Lexitechnia » Piataia » On Ibran orthography (a start) — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:50:41 +0000

[...] among the perfect and the ancient’ as opposed to ‘the cheap and the modern’, as I have a habit of mentioning Horace said? I mean, you may think a thousand years is a long time, but that’s just peanuts compared [...]

Comment on Henaudute sentence of the moment. by Lexitechnia » Arda » Henaudute sentence of the moment.

Lexitechnia » Arda » Henaudute sentence of the moment. — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:21:40 +0000

[...] I don’t know what it is about Henaudute that lets me get so much created in it; I mentioned last time I touched this text that it was the longest bit of Henaudute I have—I think actually it’s the longest I have in [...]

Comment on Pliny on the formation of selenite. by Muke

Muke — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:01:55 +0000

Pliny does assume quartz is formed this way in this passage; I haven’t seen if he asserts it explicitly elsewhere.

The word ‘selenite’ may be ambiguous in some authors, but the name Pliny uses in this section is ‘lapis specularis’, which I think is unambiguously the gypsum crystal. He says the original and highest-quality source of it was Segóbriga, and the mines there were gypsum mines.

Comment on Pliny on the formation of selenite. by Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:42:04 +0000

I read elsewhere (I forget where; probably on Plinipedia :) ) that Pliny regarded quartz as a form of ice that had become “permanent” due to being frozen for a long time. This had been justified by the observation that quartz had been found on glaciers but not on volcanoes.

It’s my understanding that there’s much confusion as to the identity of “selenite” – as the name has been used for either moonstone or for the crystalline form of Gypsum, two completely different minerals. I’m currently attempting to unravel this one. Can of worms.

http://www.gemstoneslist.com/moonstone.html