{"id":2249,"date":"2012-12-29T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jett.in\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2012-12-29T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T23:08:12","slug":"slavic-cognate-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/2012\/12\/slavic-cognate-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavic Cognate Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>as a linguistics major (Northwestern &#8217;98) who doesn&#8217;t use his degree for much nowadays, i still nerd out a little at language. while here in poland, i love that i am able to recognize polish words via what i know in other slavic languages. i mean, it&#8217;s similar and happens all the time with romance and germanic languages, but i think in this case it&#8217;s a bit more special because i&#8217;ve only picked up a few words casually, as opposed to studying a language outright.<\/p>\n<p>for instance, what i remember from my visits to the czech republic (czech words first):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>hlavn\u00ed <\/em>\u2192\u00a0<em>g\u0142\u00f3wny <\/em>&#8220;main&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>star\u00e9 m\u011bsto<\/em> \u00a0\u2192 <em>stare miasto<\/em> &#8220;old town&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>most<\/em> \u2192 <em>most<\/em> &#8220;bridge&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>dobr\u00fd den<\/em> \u2192 <em>dzie\u0144 dobry <\/em>&#8220;good day&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>d\u011bkuji<\/em> \u2192 <em>dzi\u0119kuj\u0119<\/em> &#8220;thank you&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jonk\/135925800\/in\/set-72057594113577660\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2250\" alt=\"Untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/jett.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Untitled.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2012\/12\/Untitled.png 400w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/wanderlusty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/\/sites\/48\/2012\/12\/Untitled-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or, i learned\u00a0<em>\u010dekaj<\/em>\u00a0(&#8220;wait&#8221;) from serbian classmates, which i recognized in slovenian during a trip to ljubljana years ago (above) as\u00a0<em>\u010dakaj<\/em>, which in polish is\u00a0<em>czeka\u0107\u00a0<\/em>(i heard it in a dubbed movie starring Dean Cain that was on tv).<\/p>\n<p>i can&#8217;t think of any from my trip to kiev, but <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Slavic_languages_tree.svg\">according to this language tree<\/a>, i should expect to discover more similarities between polish and czech than the rest, and also explains why i haven&#8217;t noticed any similarities with ukranian or russian (yet?).<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m also glad to have had polish friends in grad school so i know that\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C5%81\">\u0142<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>sounds like &#8220;w&#8221; and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wroclaw\">Wroc\u0142aw<\/a> <\/em>sounds like &#8220;vrots-wahv&#8221; and the name <em>Grzegorz<\/em> (Gregory) sounds like &#8220;gzhay-gosh&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as a linguistics major (Northwestern &#8217;98) who doesn&#8217;t use his degree for much nowadays, i still nerd out a little at language. while here in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Slavic Cognate Congition #travel #travelblog","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[435,574,660],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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