Is "w" in "whole" unethymological then?

Danny, fantastic interview on @lingthusiasm.bsky.social about your book!

Btw., I remember I had problems while learning German. "Weihnachten" resembles Polish "Wielkanoc" so closely that I was confusing it with "Ostern".
Just to add, the Polish name for Christmas is "Boże Narodzenie"—literally: "God's Birthday".

It's interesting that the two main Christian feasts have so similar-sounding names in Czech. I know that Vánoce is from German Weihnachten. Maybe an idea for a blog post. :)

True, in Germanic grammars there is a well-established tradition of distinguishing the "modal verbs" as a closed group with its own inflection and syntax rules. When taught in school, I was always wondering why we don't talk about modal verbs in (my native) Polish.

By the way, why are the Spanish plural subject pronous so long ("nosotros/-as, vosotros/-as")? Usually, if these pronouns were often used, three syllables would not be convenient. Maybe the reason is that they are always stressed because e.g. "somos españoles/-as" is correct without a pronoun?

Maybe the three-branch model of grouping the Slavic dialects is not accurate?

Excellent article! I've always wondered why the metathesis in Czech and Slovak was with lengthening (as in South Slavic), whereas in Polish there was no lengthening. I don't know how it is in Sorbian. Besides, some toponims in Kashubian retained "CarC" (like Nowogard).

The Proto-Slavic *gǫsь (without satemisation) is interesting.

Strictly speaking, English has gained tense-aspect-mood analytic verb structures :)

Are there Slavic cognates of either of the words?

Miło wiedzieć, źe masz korzenie w Polsce. W jakim regionie mieszkałaś? Jestem otwarty na konwersację. :)

It's interesting that many languages have the same word for 'imaginary event while sleeping' and 'hope, wish'. In Polish we have the distinct words "sen" and "marzenie". I wonder that the ambiguity of "dream" hasn't caused some trend for repartition, divergence in English's history.

I'm a Polish native speaker. What makes you enthusiastic about this language?

Interestingly, in mathematics we have two distinct notions: homomorphism and homeomorphism. There is no conceptual difference (both are functions preserving some structure), however they are used for different structures: algebraic or topological. We have more general "morphism" as well. :)

As I've read in a dictionary, Polish "patelnia" seems to be an adaptation of Medieval Latin "patella" using the native "-nia" suffix, and means "frying pan".

It reminds me of Proto-Slavic prepositions like *sъ(n). The /n/ was normally lost, but if followed by (inflected) 3rd person pronouns it was retained and became the beginning of the pronoun. Cf. Polish "z nim, z nią" ("with him/her"). In some contexts "nim" can stand without any preposition before.