Last word in a foreign language that you learnt

[linguoboy]

twlc mochyn pigsty
ocheneidio sigh
ychwanegol additional

[ceid donn]

schack - chess
gwyddbwyll - chess; fidchell (a board game mentioned in Celtic legends)

[ceid donn]

luinneag Luimneach - limerick

[Luís]

cachear to search, to frisk ( revistar)
ciénaga marsh, swamp ( lamaçal)

[linguoboy]

s'entre-tuer to kill each other
Knopfleiste placket

[Vlürch]

虫歯 (mushiba) - cavity (on a tooth)
荒地 (arechi) - wasteland
蕾 (tsubomi) - bud (of a flower)

荒地 (huāngdì) - wasteland

[Luís]

botiquín first aid kit ( caixa de primeiros socorros)
talego jail (slang, Spain)

[IpseDixit]

coloratura

[ceid donn]

memalukan - embarrassing

[linguoboy]

bousiller wreck, ruin
Englischer Kuchen fruitcake

[Vlürch]

معبد (maʿbad) - temple

奇跡 (kiseki) - miracle
猿轡 (sarugutsuwa) - gag (for the mouth)
Both words I'd encountered before, but now I've actually more or less memorised them.

胣 (?) - to disembowel
Randomly stumbled upon this as a result of a corrupt filename, which included a bunch of other obscure hanzi. Nice addition to my collection of "dark words", heh. I wonder what its pronunciation was; the reconstruction given on this site is /*t’iɑ ~ *diɑ/ or /*rhaiʔ ~ *laiʔ/ in Old Chinese, but I mean in Middle Chinese or whatever.

orphrey
organza

[linguoboy]

胣 (?) - to disembowel

I found this listed in several authoritative sources including Unihan. Looks like there are two accepted pronunciations in contemporary Chinese (both Standard Chinese and Cantonese).

mitger sharecropper

[vijayjohn]

I wonder what its pronunciation was; the reconstruction given on this site is /*t’iɑ ~ *diɑ/ or /*rhaiʔ ~ *laiʔ/ in Old Chinese, but I mean in Middle Chinese or whatever.

This says:

Modern (Beijing) reading: yǐ
Preclassic Old Chinese: Łajʔ
Classic Old Chinese: Łáj
Western Han Chinese: láj
Eastern Han Chinese: źáj
Early Postclassic Chinese: źáj
Middle Postclassic Chinese: jáj
Late Postclassic Chinese: jáj
Middle Chinese: jé

[Vlürch]

I found this listed in several authoritative sources including Unihan. Looks like there are two accepted pronunciations in contemporary Chinese (both Standard Chinese and Cantonese).

That's something I've noticed myself with a lot of different obscure characters, which is pretty confusing. I mean, if they're no longer used, why would they have set pronunciations? Are they "preconstructed" based on earlier pronunciations? But if the earlier pronunciations are reconstructed, that seems a bit paradoxical... or were they still used so recently that they already had established pronunciations in the modern Sinitic languages that could be documented before they ceased to be used? Or are they still used occasionally? Maybe in historical fiction or something if nowhere else? Sorry for bombarding you with questions (once again ), especially when I probably should be asking OldBoring instead... hopefully he'll see this and feel like responding.

Modern (Beijing) reading: yǐ
Preclassic Old Chinese: Łajʔ
Classic Old Chinese: Łáj
Western Han Chinese: láj
Eastern Han Chinese: źáj
Early Postclassic Chinese: źáj
Middle Postclassic Chinese: jáj
Late Postclassic Chinese: jáj
Middle Chinese: jé

Hmm, so what would it most likely have become if it was borrowed into Japanese? Would it be just /i/?

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recidivism

横雨 (yokoame) - rain that falls sideways due to wind
A pretty obvious compound, but it's nice. I should be focusing on learning completely new words rather than new compounds, and maybe some that are actually commonly used...

練 - white silk; to boil and scour raw silk (so that it becomes soft and white)
For the verbal meaning, Wiktionary just says "to boil and scour raw silk" but the Xinhua dictionary includes the part I put in parentheses. Not sure if boiling and scouring raw silk (whatever that even means in practice; I'm not a clothing manufacturer) could have an alternative outcome as well, but it doesn't really matter either way. Kinda sad that the modern meaning is apparently "to practise" rather than "white silk". I mean, having a specific word for white silk is pretty cool.

[ceid donn]

bysell - key (computer, musical instrument)
bysellfyrdd - keyboard
cyfrinair - password
taenlen - spreadsheet
caledwedd - hardware
meddalwedd - software

[ceid donn]

While I knew Welsh had a word for "selfie" (hunlun), I just learned Scottish Gaelic has one too:

fèineag - selfie

[linguoboy]

You prompted to learn the Irish: féinín.

[ceid donn]

Welsh is so delightful.

disgyrchiant - gravity

[Dormouse559]

maïzéna f - cornstarch

[Naava]

maïzéna f - cornstarch

What?? So that's where the brand name of this cornstarch product comes from?