#German Romanian

[yvanspijk]

Wool & lana

The word lana (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English wool. For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other. Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana. The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

[crowtrobotx]

[leavescrown]

You are welcome to write them down or tag them too :) 🎧

(it's totally okay to add more languages first before voting 😂)

[lucishell]

spent my silly little day making this about my silly little modern au i've spoken about once like a year ago

[languages-i-guess-comic]

Lig folk details close-ups

Sorta moodboard?

[postcard-from-the-past]

German folklore garment from Transylvania, Romania

Romanian vintage postcard

[tired-ppth-immunologist]

i'm curious now, what languages do you speak?

Ah, well, I can speak Romanian (since it’s my mother-tongue), English, German, learnt Scottish Gaelic as a hobby in college, and I’m currently studying Greek, for my mother was from Greece and I’d love to feel more connected to her.

Odd list, I know, but I think it’s helpful knowing some foreign languages, no matter how random.

[cid5]

A German, Bulgarian and Turkish soldier on patrol together in Constanza, Romania.

[valzer-col-diavolo]

i need to learn every language. let me learn every language. why can’t i learn every language. LET ME ABSORB THE LANGUAGES

[yvanspijk]

Feuer & feu

The German word Feuer looks a bit like French feu and both mean 'fire'. That's a coincidence, because they're not etymologically related in any way. Feuer, like English fire, comes from West Germanic *fuir, while feu stems from the unrelated Latin word focus, 'hearth', which only later came to mean 'fire'. Focus was borrowed into English and many other languages as focus, its meaning 'focus (of a lens; of an ellipse)' created by Johannes Kepler. My new infographic tells you all about these words.

[doomxdriven]

i could go into a deep, well articulated meta/headcanon about why the bount share a german motif with the quincy but instead lets do a off the cuff kind of meta/headcanon bc im tired rn and work is killing m e.

right so

the real reason: the filler anime team was fucking lazy

my headcanoned and therefore 'canon' reason: its twofold, firstly bount are infused with the remnants of mod souls that were made to partly resemble quincy, and secondly + more importantly, bount souls are all infused with power from fragments of the soul king (bount aren't inherently born with fragments ofc but soul king fragments are the core of the jokaisho and their energy was responsible for birthing the original bount), power that was more from the soul king's ''quincy'' aspects. ergo, bount abilities, their forms of spell-casting, the chants they use to summon their dolls, and many of their tribe's other terms etc etc, all have that heavy german motif because they are in a sense, in spite of the similarities they might also share with shinigami or fullbringers, ultimately cut from the same cloth that quincy are, only someone really fucked up when they were doing that cutting.

[solcattus]

Melancolie, 1895

By Viktor Schramm

[thunderstruck9]

Gert & Uwe Tobias (Romanian/German, 1973), Untitled, 2013. Woodcut on canvas, 200.2 x 300.2 cm.

[vyorei]

FUCK YEAH

BASED ENGLAND

BASED GERMANY

BASED FRANCE

BASED ROMANIA

✊🇵🇸

[strawberryserpent]

Need to marry a latino man fr

[castlephantom]

A small headcanon that I had in my mind is that that the current generation of Belmonts nationality are romanian (because my brain wouldn't leave me alone as latin version of Julius' name is Iulius). I also want to believe that Julius knows romanian and he talked with Alucard in that language before his amnesia.