User:ZxxZxxZ/Favorites

A list of my favorites.

Sections

Etymology, Descendants, Alternative forms

Scripts

Avestan, Cuneiform, Devanagari, Bangla, Syriac (estrangela), Greek, Hebrew (when displayed in serif version)

Styles: Shikasta Nasta'liq, Fraktur, and a common form of taliq (or riqa'?) style when written in an exaggerated and complicated manner like this

Letters

𐬉 𐬝 𐬴 ē ō x z æ α η к и я £ ح ٤ א ק

Sounds

e̞ χ v dz əʊ

Entries

Unfortunately, my favorite entry has been deleted, but you can find a copy of it here.

Etymological information (Etymology and Descendants sections)

*𐏃𐎶𐎠𐎼𐎣𐎼 (*hammārakara-), *ganzabara-, *spāda-

*raʾš-

𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu), 𒂍𒃲 (É.GAL)

սպարապետ (sparapet) (*spādapati-)

χοαδηο (xoadēo)

διφθέρα (diphthéra)

خرما (xormâ), ملخ (malax)

...

Spelling/shape and/or pronunciation

nexus, codex, exodus, Felix (spelling), nautilus, rectus, Maersk (I like to pronounce it as [maˈɛɾsk])

disease (when pronounced /dɪˈziːz/)

aesthetic, hysteria, siesta, sierra, delta, vector, magneta, Saturn

Firenze, Enrico, Federico, nēmō, Neo, leō

Lucas

Byzantine (spelling), Alyssa (spelling)

ʾEsṭrangelā, Marcella (English pronunciation), Aurēlius, Flavius, Maximus, Narses

نریمان (Narimân), به‌آفرید (Behâfarid), Surēn, کیوان (Keyvân)

Enkidu, الیکا (Elikâ), Elena, Electra, ελληνικά (elliniká) (I like to pronounce it as [ɛlɛˈnika]), стрела́ (strelá)

Mc-, MacKenzie, ـویه (-ōē), -ez, -𐬀𐬉- (-aē-) (unfortuanately it is pronunced [aj]; I like to pronounce it as [-aeː-] or [-aɛː-]), ēdōn

νύχτα (nýchta)

اسپریس (asprês), پردیس (pardês), سنان (senân), ...

ʾhlmn' (Ahreman)