Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/January 2019

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 1


 * 1) قَصَب  = stalk

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 2


 * 1) Respect mood in plural - based on what?

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 3


 * 1) Adjectives ending in -ic
 * 2) Question about verb tense: past tense or past perfect tense?

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 5


 * 1) Long vowel sounds in Old English

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 6


 * 1) German "Verunreinigungen"

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 7


 * 1) Forth Worth

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 8


 * 1) Too-wry-ay
 * 2) Nationality names which can or can't be used as both a adjective and a (singular) noun

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 12


 * 1) Is "professional hunter" an umbrella term for those, whose occupation is hunting, e.g. "gamekeepers"?

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 14


 * 1) Xhosa pronunciation question (letter "r")

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 16


 * 1) Arabic: " Hello, حلو ". Can this mean anything, not in a romantic context?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 17


 * 1) Chinese Name
 * 2) Boat vs. ship

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 18


 * 1) Paul Meara
 * 2) Leipzig
 * 3) Are there other words where the Arabic consonant غ interchanges with the Hebrew consonant ר?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 19


 * 1) The food tastes good
 * 2) Why Copenhagen and not Copenhaven?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 20


 * 1) Japanese text
 * 2) Yours sincerely/faithfully
 * 3) Saadeddin Arkej or Sadettin Ergeç, Arabic or Turkish

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 22


 * 1) Title question
 * 2) English sentences where the past tense is not supplied contextually
 * 3) l and r in Japanese

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 23


 * 1) "I'll get me coat"

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 24


 * 1) The word "either"

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 25


 * 1) on or in the Chinese mainland
 * 2) Name of Illustrator of work in German

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 26


 * 1) Indy 4

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 27


 * 1) Coin identification

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 28


 * 1) Greek and Russian alphabets

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 29


 * 1) Baritarian

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 30


 * 1) Can "tincture" mean a bottle/phial?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2019 January 31


 * 1) Komi language Sound Change