⚙️ Roy PhillipsJan 31, 2025
For a story, I've had to invent a month/festival name in 4th century early Saxon for January: Kookamonad, lit. “Cake Month” c.f., OE: Solmōnaþ.
Can we all perhaps agree to celebrate January as "Cookie Month" from here on forward?
#OldSaxon #OldEnglish #CreativeWriting
Show thread⚙️ Roy PhillipsJan 12, 2025
@AlexCorby I'm having similar fun with Early Saxon/Brythonic.
#OldSaxon #Brythonic
⚙️ Roy PhillipsJan 8, 2025
Would anybody be interested in reviewing the glossaries for a novel set in 4th century Britain that uses reconstructed words/phrases in #Brythonic & #OldSaxon?
#protoceltic #celtic #cornish #breton #welsh #cymraeg
Show thread⚙️ Roy PhillipsOct 10, 2024
@ixtlidekami Input into my current WIP
#TimeTeam #OldSaxon #AncientRome #romanbritain
⚙️ Roy PhillipsAug 28, 2024

#WritersCoffeeClub 28-8: Do you incorporate poems, songs or letters in your work? How do you format them?

Italics, two-column (with translation)
#oldenglish #oldsaxon #thecrossroads

Joel M. Hoffman, PhDNov 29, 2022

#ThickTrunkTuesday --

"Thick" from the #OldEnglish "þicce" / #OldSaxon "thikke," which also yielded (somewhat ironically, it would turn out) the #Dutch "dik" and the #German word of the same pronunciation.

And "trunk" ultimately from #Latin "truncus," because a tree trunk was (sadly) meant to be cut; the same Latin gives us "truncate."

The #etymology of "Tuesday" hasn't changed since last week...

#linguistics #language #languages @linguistics @languagelovers #writing #writingcommunity