Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2006

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 1


 * 1) etymology of utica
 * 2) Grammaticality of depictions

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 2


 * 1) Arabic word's meaning
 * 2) What catagory do prepositions belong to? Lexical or functional?
 * 3) English translation of the Chinese word "姑息"
 * 4) "Wax on, wax off"
 * 5) Hindi Words of Arabic Origin
 * 6) Paramount chief in Spanish

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 3


 * 1) Battle of creativities
 * 2) 'South-South cooperation'
 * 3) Translate to Japanese
 * 4) tr" and "str" letter combos
 * 5) integrity of data

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 4


 * 1) "Me siento muy vacío" (TV commercial)
 * 2) Can you make up a language?
 * 3) German translation, bitte
 * 4) Abracos fortes
 * 5) Raining tea
 * 6) Use of 'times' throughout the times

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 5


 * 1) ebrew
 * 2) Irony?
 * 3) schrodinger's cat
 * 4) Finnish computer error message?
 * 5) A dutch equivilent of the term "freethought"?
 * 6) nglish
 * 7) apitalization in Titles
 * 8) henever?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 6


 * 1) greek language
 * 2) Abiento
 * 3) od rest ye merry gentlemen
 * 4) Pronunciation of "J"
 * 5) id I?
 * 6) Origin of the name Cabragh? Do you think it is a corruption of Gabragh?
 * 7) How would you translate this from Polish to English?
 * 8) "scrubs" meaning operating theater dress.
 * 9) Forms of Poetry
 * 10) The Catcher in the rye

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 7


 * 1) Which Songs Are These?
 * 2) Need to know how to say this phrase in Choctaw
 * 3) cherokee language
 * 4) translation help?
 * 5) Native speakers
 * 6) Latin translation request
 * 7) Serbo-Croatian or ??
 * 8) 'Third party'
 * 9) kipping "on" in sentences
 * 10) Question about "st" in German, in words like "ist" en bist"
 * 11) help
 * 12)  multitude of grammar issues

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 8


 * 1) Saying originator
 * 2) o longer an insult
 * 3) Do it yourself
 * 4) racial or slang terms
 * 5) Query regarding language

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 10


 * 1) ENGLISH TO COPTIC..PLEASE
 * 2) "Crossing the bar"

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 11


 * 1) Classical and Modern Greek?
 * 2) J in 4th position
 * 3) Old German Word for "tank"
 * 4) ranzabal
 * 5) What language used in mid/late 20th C. Skopje?
 * 6) Drug eluting stents
 * 7) first verse of French poem that begins, "quand vous serez veille et decrepit" by whom?.
 * 8) what does this mean?
 * 9) english
 * 10) Farsi script translation
 * 11) arawakan online language dictionary
 * 12) Bye vs. Cya

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 12


 * 1) idealogy v ideology
 * 2) "She" as "it"
 * 3) I Like to See it Lap the Miles by Emily Dickinson
 * 4) ord for a person who has a love for teaching
 * 5) Spanish
 * 6) sofa, couch, settee
 * 7) "Linking L" in Brazilian Portuguese?
 * 8) Letter ending: yours
 * 9) Dramatic vs. Theatrical qualities

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 13


 * 1) Book Review
 * 2) IPA Starter
 * 3) ynonym
 * 4) Unidentified Soup
 * 5) Please help define Hindi/Sanskrit word
 * 6) Where is the Stremnaya Road, and what does "stremnaya" mean?
 * 7)  Where is the Stremnaya Road?  Is it in Bolivia?  What does "stremnaya" mean?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 14


 * 1) Wikipedia tutorial on spotting/eliminating redundant words
 * 2) Parts of Speech
 * 3) Or
 * 4) off of
 * 5) tow, row
 * 6) Pronunciation of Adum (Kumasi, Ghana)
 * 7) Brother's Wife
 * 8) Once upon a time, in Spanish
 * 9) Indescribable
 * 10) Just how much of this IS the title?
 * 11) Pronounciation

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 15


 * 1) Hidden cultural references?
 * 2) Latin to English Translation
 * 3) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
 * 4) The Tiger and the Hare
 * 5) e questo è un uomo
 * 6) To Indent or Not to Indent
 * 7) PATIENT - SHE or HE
 * 8) Sanskrit
 * 9) Swedish word
 * 10) antique markings
 * 11) PATIENT - SHE or HE?
 * 12) third son and sixth?
 * 13) translation
 * 14) Spacing in abbreviations

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 16


 * 1) Concurrent education
 * 2) Unknown language, unknown meaning.
 * 3) This was printed in a Turkish Newspaper
 * 4) origin of the word yahoo.
 * 5) The ease with which required information can be found.
 * 6) Is tehre a wikipedai spellign bot?
 * 7) rere Jacques in Dutch and other languages
 * 8) go in for sports
 * 9) ong in unknown language

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 17


 * 1) orient vs. orientate
 * 2) Please Help Me Out... (rhyme scheme)
 * 3) Lost Word
 * 4) etymology of word "forgive"
 * 5) How to use, "Drink, Drank, Drunk, and Drunken," correctly.
 * 6) Flapjack
 * 7) asque minimal pair
 * 8) My Melody of Love

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 18


 * 1) Queen-size" in French
 * 2) unjabi and Hindi fonts
 * 3) English Language tests
 * 4) Commmunication skills
 * 5) Uniform spelling of a Rebekah
 * 6) punctuation

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 20


 * 1) Pluralizing brain
 * 2) Sinophile
 * 3) ea Soup - Fog
 * 4) apanese/French
 * 5) Donner..?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 21


 * 1) Russian>English: a memorial inscription in Latvia
 * 2) Rumbula protest banner text: Latvian(?)>English
 * 3) Curious about George.

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 22


 * 1) Conjunctions
 * 2) etnus
 * 3) Unknown language /meaning in school song

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 23


 * 1) reudian slip
 * 2) rench Numbers

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 24

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 25

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 26


 * 1) Uh huh...
 * 2) Querer in the preterite
 * 3) How would I say this in Dutch?
 * 4) Homely
 * 5) Latin definition: Cost
 * 6) Ji
 * 7) putting words
 * 8) Thai Language
 * 9) hindi lecturer position

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 27


 * 1) linking acticals in other lanuguages
 * 2) Language
 * 3) My/Mine
 * 4) reflexive 1st person plural pronouns in German
 * 5) crossword help
 * 6) Vae victis

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 28


 * 1) What does "tucci" mean?
 * 2) translation of an article from spanish wikipedia to english
 * 3) About the lost of information
 * 4) word trivia --- gry puzzle
 * 5) Chernobyl, and The End is Nigh
 * 6) Looking for a word that describes opposites

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 29


 * 1) Throw your mother's old shoes
 * 2) Fourteenth Century Old English of words "Iesus" and "god"
 * 3) Definition of word "Jesus"
 * 4) American Independece - Greek lnaguage

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 30


 * 1) Pronounciation of the Irish or Scottish Gaelic word "Cailleach"?
 * 2) English language expressions
 * 3) British Sign Language
 * 4) The word *Unreached*
 * 5) Petrarch's "De Viris Illustribus"
 * 6) language

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006 December 31


 * 1) Help with translation
 * 2) symbols
 * 3) Plural of "Software"
 * 4) Latin translation of a Petrarch work title