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  • Seagoon_
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    1 year ago

    /ˈkɪliən/ , since this is his wiki page and his people would have final say I think hard k

    why didn’t I think to look it up before 🙄

    • StudSpud The Starchy
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      1 year ago

      I big phat linguistics and etymology nerd, so i love looking that stuff up. It’s Irish so yeah, hard ‘K’ sound.

      Get lost down the rabbithole of etymonline. I just wish there were more resources for languages that aren’t daughter-languages of P.I.E. But the answer to that honestly is to just learn a language like Finnish and read the sources for Proto-Uralic. Sigh, so much to learn!!