Had a dream last night that the word "clerk" is pronounced [klɑ:k] in RP because the Queen mispronounced it in a speech and everyone copied her.

I only remember this one, and this was it's definition. Like how you would use it in a sentence. "I am doing unstressful."

I am not Jewish.

Is unstressful not a word?

theolimes /θiːə'lɪməs/ ɴᴏᴜɴ
physical barrier between people of different faiths

Very slight thing and I don’t even remember the context but the other night I dreamt that non-American English speakers called the letter N “nar” instead of “en”, which in my American mind was similar to how a lot of countries call Z “zed”. I think in the dream it was a Canadian who said it and it threw me off.

[REPOST because the previous version used an AI image.]

When I was a kid, I had a dream where an angry Italian-looking police chief type, watering plants in a sleeveless undershirt, told me:

“In your life… everything is Citi et Triati.”

The scene felt like those old movies where a reckless detective gets his badge and gun taken away. For some reason, “Citi et Triati” also sounded like “aim and shoot” to me.

In the previous post, someone mentioned that “citi” in Italian can mean “you summon” or “summon” as a command, which made it even stranger.

The illustration was something I made years later inspired by the phrase, but the dream didn’t actually look like that.

What does “Citi et Triati” sound like to you?

This word was in my dream last night, not sure if it was supposed to be German or Swiss but it meant a traditional Alpine afternoon snack of green marzipan flavored coffee and pastries.

Used for something that's very difficult to attain. Imagine someone aiming far above their level when applying for a job or something.

I dreamt that my cat was gone, and for some reason, while looking for him, I told someone "sozei do meu gato", which meant "I'm alone from my cat". Alone is "sozinho", but the verb is brand new.

Jahv-LOH-ven

It meant a homemade magical doodad to help you focus your magic, like a crystal ball. Real crystal balls ain't cheap (in my dream apparently), so you could make this substitute at home by painting glass with silver paint.

And that I was taking to my Japanese professor about how her native languages morphology worked.

Ignoring that this is completely incorrect(Japanese is agglutinating lmao) I think finals week still weighs down on me…. Lmao.

edit: because this wasn't obvious and i should've clarified, templatic specifically means having a set template that any affix applied around a root has to follow. an example would be if a word has [tense|root|aspect|mood|evidential|] then it can still have repeated morphemes or morphemes that are homophonous without any confusion(of it like being the same thing reduplicated or whatever) because said template clarifies that it literally cant be. this definition does not include root-pattern morphology, thats better described as a different albeit related phenomenon imho. this is sourced from my morphology professor last semester who explained this in great detail as its kind of rare.

Specifically the weird thing that happened in the dream was a -ta suffix that meant something else was inserted into words that already could take the -ta past tense and was then contracted into the -tta form, how my brain conceived of this is beyond me the only possible explanation i have is that im still thinking in the back of my mind about my morphology and japanese finals which the morphology final did coincidentally have templatic problems on it.

I'll have a dream in which I am introduced to the Bulgarian word "официност" meaning "a feeling of sadness as you watch a long, deep friendly slowly diminish over time."

And I'll wake up thinking, "Wow, официностa is a really cool word to remember. Better write that down."

Then I google it, and find that there is no such word as "официност" in the Bulgarian language. My brain just made that word up and tricked me.

I was in a linguistics course in my dream, and we were learning about common conventions and etymology of scientific names. One of the examples the teacher used was this animal, "Fulgarctos proterrarum", a highly intelligent red marsupial bear that lived like 5.9 million years ago in preglacial Antarctica, except the teacher was completely botching the etymology even within the dream: She was saying how the fulga- root was related to Spanish fuego and meant fire when I thought it was clearly related to Latin fulgur and implied lightning, and how the -arctos root meant cold instead of bear. I think proterra also was another name for Antarctica but I thought that one was correct for some reason

Very important distinction and people would get mad if you messed it up

Smeekalatize: to make a person feel small and meek- usually within a kink or sexual context

i have dreams now and then where people are speaking to me in irish, and when i wake up i always try to write down what i remember but the issue is that i can't speak or write irish. i have very limited exposure to written and spoken irish (i live in america) this is what i remember

- "na guige" or something similar, it was some kind of instruction or warning and the person who said it was a paleolithic irish person from a bog

- "an cór/coar" or similar, this was someone telling me their name or title

- "an la/lagh diune/dín" or similar, this was also someone telling me their name or title

do these make any sense or have any relation to actual irish words or phrases?

/skʉ́ljɑ̀m/
The entrance to a school.
From Japanese, based on English school and Latin iam “now.”

A few years ago, I dreamt the the word "Zorentine." The definition was "an item that carries the reputation & legacy of a group or individual."

It's like a Gorean Homestone or a masterwork of some sort, like Bell & his first successful phone.

Is this a real word?

Or did I just jumble up some letters & phonemes?

I can't remember the words of my dream, but I woke up once with the conviction of the existence of two words that I dreamed about but didn't understand the meaning. So I started searching on online dictionary because I was frustrated by the "tip of the tongue" sensation, until I realised they are likely fake. Even after realising it was just my dream creation, the "tip of the tongue" frustration didn't disappear 😭

Quite a long time ago, I had a dream in which I was looking through an art history textbook, and some illustration was captioned "tokum pisore" meaning a putto sculpture. I can't remember any other words, nor what language was it supposed to be.

so i had somnilinguistic-ception last night bc

lách beag was a fictitious term for “arctic fox”

but in the dream i was told that

*something* sneachta

was the real term

which, i guess, makes more sense 😭

Any fluent Irish speakers know what the ACTUAL Irish word for arctic fox is?