Talk:English Wordbook/S

Serve
Anyone has any idea of what should we use for the word "Serve"? I'm thinking of "Thiste" but it is reconstruction from German "Dienst"

--202.153.248.252 10:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Sauna
I knew of the word "steam room" before "sauna".

81.157.247.141 17:02, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Indeed, as is the case with many words in English. The more english word is the one learnt first, and it is only later on in life that soem of us forget how to talk properly. I know I used to use "grown up" a lot more when I was a kid than later, when I started to say "adult"... now I say "grown up" again; I have seen the error of me ways! BryanAJParry 19:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I was wondering, is it ok to use translations of outlandish words?
 * That's called calqueing, and can sometimes be misleading, but sometimes alright. An Anglish word must basically look like a rare English word that one simply hasn't heard of, and that means the morphemes should be used according to their English meanings. It's better to anglicise the definition than to calque the raw morphology of the word. So I think a better word would be Outlive, or Live Through. Inkstersco 20:20, 9 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Definitely! This is, in fact, the de facto policy. Sure, calquing is finw when it's fine. But when the resultant word doesn't really well reflect the MEANING of that word, then there is a serious problem.... :) BryanAJParry 19:03, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Suppose
Couldn't this word be translated as "ween" instead of the ones already given? Padraig 16.06.2006
 * I say aye, says I. ~Inkstersco
 * Wow, what a word! Bryan BryanAJParry 22:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Saint
Saint was in OE. BryanAJParry 06:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

School
I swear we've been thru this before..... "School" was in Old English. Bryan 82.44.212.6 08:13, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, now I can stop wracking my brains :) ~Inkstersco

Save\Hain
I'm glad someone found a word for this -- but what exactly does Hain mean? ~Inkstersco


 * Its a Scots dialectal word. It can also mean to preserve or protect. I Believe it comes from the Old Norse word 'Hegna'. Found it in a Scots glossary and the Dictionary o' the Scots Leid gave me its origins. 83.100.181.151 19:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That's great. Now that we have Hain, Stow and Hoard, all we need now is a word that means Rescue. ~Inkstersco


 * This is Hain used in the preserve context 'Scots is our mither tung; an gin we dinna hain it, thare naebody gaun tae hain it for us.' I think you've probably guess that it mean 'Scots is our mother tongue; and if we do not preserve it, nobody will preserve it for us.' Its a word thats starting to grow on me :) 83.100.195.114 19:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


 * By the way how about the word "Spare", it is cognate with Swedish "Spara" (meaning "to save")

Pyurio 10:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Second
Is there a survived word for this one, or is this left for now? Padraig 13.3.2007


 * Apparently Old English used the word 'Other' to mean 'second' but I think the word 'second' came to be used because 'other' was too ambiguous. I think the Scandinavian languages still use other for second though. So, the original word survived but with a reduced meaning. 83.100.151.9 17:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I think Old English also used 'after' to mean 'second', but again, that word has since lost that meaning. The word I most often use if 'next', because it kind of has some of the meanings of 'second'. I can't think of anything better, so I try to make this word work. Oswax Scolere 17:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Storm
Does the word storm need to be replaced? 83.100.150.54 08:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Stunt
Stunt is Old English. Hereward 09:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC)