A few days before the march commemorating Greek Independence Day was to take place, I received the following text message: ...

A lexical gap or lacuna is a "missing word" in the vocabulary of a language – a lack of a single word to describe a concept ...

The word Jameela means 'beautiful' in Swahili. It is a loanword from Arabic with the same meaning. For example, a handsome man is known as Jamil or Jameel, while a beautiful woman is Jamila or Jameela ...

Of course, things don’t always translate perfectly. The German calque for cloud computing is Datenwolke—data cloud—which sounds straight out of a sci-fi novel. And in Chinese, hot dog was once ...

Metathesis boolean Flag indicating that a process of metathesis is assumed, explaining the apparent irregularity of a cognate. Assimilation boolean Flag indicating that a process of assimilation is ...