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Is a cognate of stig found in other Romance languages, particularly French?
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spanick wrote: 06 Dec 2018 14:59 Is a cognate of stig found in other Romance languages, particularly French?
[cross] No, I don't think so.
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Well, actually...
No descendant of the Proto-Germanic root of stig is found in Romance languages, but there are cognates with the PIE root, such as, apparently, style.
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Jackk wrote: 06 Dec 2018 15:09 Well, actually...
No descendant of the Proto-Germanic root of stig is found in Romance languages, but there are cognates with the PIE root, such as, apparently, style.
Well that's very generous of you, but I did intend the question in the direct descendant of the PGmc word sense. Thanks for the hint [;)]

Is it a descendant of *stikiz?
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spanick wrote: 06 Dec 2018 16:06 Is it a descendant of *stikiz?
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Is scandr from "scandere"?
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shimobaatar wrote: 06 Dec 2018 17:03 Is scandr from "scandere"?
[tick] Yep!
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Does <stig> descend from *stigiz?
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spanick wrote: 06 Dec 2018 17:08 Does <stig> descend from *stigiz?
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Does it mean something like to climb a ladder?
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spanick wrote: 06 Dec 2018 17:15 Does it mean something like to climb a ladder?
That is the literal meaning of the word - "ladder-climb" - but in actual use it has a metaphorical meaning.
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Is it related to career advancement?
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shimobaatar wrote: 06 Dec 2018 17:38 Is it related to career advancement?
[tick] Or, career advancement is a topic of conversation in which this word might likely be used. 😀 (it's a little more general)
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So, to climb the ladder? Like to get successively promoted?
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spanick wrote: 06 Dec 2018 17:52 So, to climb the ladder? Like to get successively promoted?
Close, but... It's not about the success, and its more general than the workplace.
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Are there similar idioms in other languages?
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spanick wrote: 06 Dec 2018 17:58 Are there similar idioms in other languages?
Hmmmm... none come immediately to mind
Ok, there's an adjective X in English and "to be X" is roughly what stigscandr means. X is an adjective of the form Noun-Adj and a calque in Boral would be something like migt-famous.
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Another hint: [:)]
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this was guessed for one of my recent previous words
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Whoops, forgot about this somehow.

Does it refer to (a type of) ambition? Or, rather "to be (some type of) ambitious, to have (some type of) ambition"?
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shimobaatar wrote: 08 Dec 2018 13:46 Whoops, forgot about this somehow.

Does it refer to (a type of) ambition? Or, rather "to be (some type of) ambitious, to have (some type of) ambition"?
[tick] [tick] [tick] I think I'll take it! [:D] The exact word I had in mind was "to be power-hungry" but that's much the same. Well done!
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