#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?

[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

[solcattus]

Melancolie, 1895

By Viktor Schramm

[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.

[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]

Feeling smug and cool bc I've been to the castle where they filmed Nosferatu and didnt need the subtitles to understand the romanian parts 💅🏻

[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.

[goldenpinof]

hi!!! just got to talk to my dad about the books of you were still were curious about it :) he confirmed they usually send him 5-20 books when a book comes out plus one or two for reprintings (depends on the publishers) and i guess that goes for translations too!

btw the spanish cover for dans book physically hurt me because they separated a single word in two lines without hypen or anything!!! i get its to keep the desing even but ahhggg as a graphic designer and spanish speaker hurts sorry for the ramble haha!!!

omgggggg, your pain is so valid! i would be pissed if they did the same with my language as well. they could literally just make the text smaller, right? anyway.

thank you so much for sharing 🙌 i want them to show us all the copies they have, including tabinof and dapgo, lol

[majestativa]

He casts his vision of paradise into hell, and vice versa; nothing is sacred; everything is of divine essence.

Tristan Tzara, Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries, on ‘Richard Huelsenbeck’