
The finds are all over the map this week, literally and figuratively, and if you react to them half as strongly as Jasmine did, I'll be thrilled. Elsewhere, the new solo work of Thievery Corporation vocalist Natalia Clavier stopped me in my tracks this week. We're told that as soon as she's done crisscrossing the globe as a backup singer for Juanes, she'll record her first EP. Do not ask for a translation in a Private Message. Wait for other opinions Latin is my hobby. Read our disclaimer before asking for a translation. If you really wanted 'we' you could change 'es' to sumus and reverteris to revertemur. We found a bona fide future star in Raquel Sofia, a vocalist who doesn't even have an album out yet we fell in love with the three tracks of hers that we found online. thou art dust and thou shalt return into dust. This week, a sprinkle of Discovery Dust came courtesy of a remarkable collection of women vocalists from such far-flung locales as Argentina, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico. I knew I'd unearthed some musical treasures when she absentmindedly mouthed, "Wow."Īt Alt.Latino, we're driven by the idea that listeners might experience that same reaction now and then the principal joy for us in doing this show lies in that sense of discovery. It would have captured the way she stared into space as the sounds came through her headphones and made their way into her musical consciousness there was a twinkle in her eyes as a slight smile parked itself on her face. So then: Greek thymos = Latin fumus, smoke English fume comes from the French, in the Middle Ages.I wish we'd put a camera in the Alt.Latino studio to capture Jasmine Garsd's face as she listened to my picks for the first time. The Romans had no words beginning with th, but they did have a lot of words beginning with f, not all but some of which corresponded to Greek words in th. That sure clears everything up! Try it, though, and you’ll see how it could happen. When my son was a very little boy, he’d say “fin” for “thin” and “vat” for “that.” He was substituting a labiodental unvoiced spirant (f) for the interdental unvoiced spirant ( th). The other is that the sound was transformed into another and somewhat similar sound. People found it hard to say, maybe, or they figured they could do without it, or nearby speakers of a different language didn’t use it: so we no longer pronounce the k in knee. One is that the sound simply dropped out. The phrase reads: Later, the word ‘dust’ turned into ‘ashes’ in popular funeral prayers and literature. Located within King James Bible in the scene when Adam and Eve are finally cast from the Garden of Eden. The infamous ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust originates from Genasis. When a sound should show up in a language but doesn’t, we have two ways of accounting for the absence. Origin of ‘Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust’. Everybody knows that!” Quite so, young man. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.' Psalm 103:14 For He knows our frame He is mindful that we are dust. But there aren’t any original Latin words with a th. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. “But wait!” says a homeschooled lad in the sixth grade. Hence all we have to account for now is the nasal consonant m. So what shows up in Greek and Latin as th will reliably show up in Germanic as d. came from areas with a heavy presence of extractives. It relates the Proto-Indo-European th to Germanic d. on the link between illegal gold mining and organized crime in Latin America. Grimm’s Law says that if you sprinkle fairy dust over your shoulder – no, it doesn’t say that. How do we get from there to here? Grimm’s Law helps, as always. Codex, the Latin word for tree trunk, came to be used for the wax-coated wood. The word is a distant cousin of ancient Greek thymos, meaning spirit, not in the sense of one’s soul, but rather what we’d call drive, ambition, fire. The word pencil comes from the latin, penicillum, the name for a small.
