(Of course, Elizabeth II was actually the child of the first "non-royal" marriage in the British royal line, her mother having been "only" nobility. Though that's still more closely related than the general public are.)
Question, why does "steadfast" means strong or solid when "stead" means moving or capable of moving at a high speed? I imagine it has more to do with the root of the word and the components we recognize today. But now I'm really wondering about it. I remember when this was trending in many of my accounts back in 2019, I wonder how they're doing now, I'll check them out again, if they're going strong and haven't fall into corruption because of money, unfortunate common situation, I'll make sure to make it a common think at least twice a year. My economy it's not good but I like the idea of the planet not dying.
I have a question about English. English is not my native tongue so English slang stumbles me. My question is about the "The Endless Knot". I googled the saying and the search results did not come up with any results that were linguistic related. Is this a slang in English or is there a word picture here?
It’s a fairly obscure reference, not slang, so it’s not surprising you didn’t know it. On our website under “about” we’ve described it this way: “The "endless knot" is a common visual motif of an interconnected knot with no beginning or end, found in many cultures around the world. My use of the phrase here is a reference to the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which it refers to the emblem of the pentangle or pentagram which Gawain has emblazoned on his shield, where it is a symbol of interconnectedness of things-a pentagram can be drawn without ever lifting the pen from the page, and each point is connected to two other points of the star. Here at The Endless Knot it also gains significance from its comparison to the cognitive science hexagram or heptagram which shows the interrelated nature of various fields in cognitive science. I've created my own Endless Knot pentagram based on this notion which connects cognitive science, linguistics, literature, history and anthropology, which are all areas you’ll see related here.”
7:13 Huh, I Always Thought It Was The Other Way Around. Also I Don't Think Gaelic Has 'P' In Any Positions, Compare Irish 'Mac' (Son Of) With Breton 'Mab' Or Welsh 'Ap/Ab'.
You mixed up "Gaelic" and "Goidelic". There are two types of Gaelic: Goidelic, and Brythonic. Welsh and Breton are Brythonic, Irish and Scots are Goidelic. In the Goidelic branch, the "p" sound was turned into the "k" sound. In the Brythonic branch, it remains unchanged. So yes, "mac" is cognate to "ap": both meaning "son of". Although that rule stopped being a thing sometime after the Roman era. So there are now Irish words with the "p" sound, but it's pretty uncommon.
Ah, that’s a regular sound change that happens in Proto-Italic. Most of the voiced aspirated stops in PIE, bh, dh, and gwh, become f in the Italic languages, which is why the English verb do from PIE *dhe- “to set, put” is related to Latin facere “to make, do”, from which we get words such as fact and factory. But the really interesting thing is the vowel. In PIE that vowel change from e to o indicates that it’s a plural (or dual) form, so the forms door and foris are historically plural. As a result, it is believed that Indo-Europeans doors had two swinging halves.
and again- fairytales about PIE , no mention about slavic roots of tree ( дерево) , forest/outside (dwór) , wood (kłoda) , but off course you are not specialist to know that . try to translate this - TWaRde DReWniane DRzWi na DWóR
@@sophiejones7727 you just prove "english speakers" should stay with "good economy,strong military" and not go any further and insult people who know more languages , level of nonsense you presented is very worrying .
@tombra7 If you don't accept the academic consensus that the PIE hypothesis is the best explanation for language change and current languages, and forms the basis of all reputable etymological sources for English, then you won't agree with any of the videos on this channel. It is your choice whether you watch them or not, but continuing rudeness to me or to other commenters will result in you being blocked from commenting.
@@Alliterative so do you only accept viewers , who agree with you ? also what is your definition of rudeness? is "Get your head out of your ass, and get your shit together" polite way of conversation in your opinion ? I do appreciate your videos, they are very clever and interesting , shame such an intelligent person can`t be more open and refuse to get any critic (on topic, not on you personally) .