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Small Discussions #1 (2023/Dec/01) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/linguistics@lemmy.ml

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I'm creating this thread to hopefully promote a bit more activity in the community.

If you want to talk about something Linguistics-related, but for some reason you don't want to create a new post just for that, feel free to post it here instead.

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[–] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I discovered that the condition of feeling like bugs are crawling on your skin is called formication.

Goes back to formica, which is latin for ant.

But no one hears the m 🤡

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

But no one hears the m 🤡

Curiously that "m" always loses one leg!

The association with ants is still transparent in a few Romance languages - like, in Spanish hormiga = ant, hormigazón = formication. Sadly Spanish loses the association with "fornigación" (fornication), as this sort of posh word used by the clergy often avoided the /f/→/h/→Ø shift. (It still almost works in Portuguese or in Italian.)