
Conlangery #67: Alũbetah
Conlangery Podcast
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Is Chai T T-T in Russian?
In English, we reanalyze that as a single more theme Mordie Yalock and people added Creek to it. This happens on the load word episode that grammatical things get glummed on this way. We have all the loan words from Arabic that have all at the beginning, which is an article in Arabic. So, it's not redundant per se. It's just that, basically, when we borrowed the term, we didn't know what it meant and we changed the internal structure of it. In the case of Sahara, we just changed the meaning from desert to name of this particular desert.
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