#Etymology

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presentcorrect

Lego is an abbreviation of leg godt which means “play well.” Volvo comes from the Latin word "volvo", which means "I roll". Spam is a portmanteau of Spiced Ham Pez

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othisaivu

One more reason for the irresponsible, Anti-vaccine imbeciles to hate COVID vaccines, especially the Indian ones, is that: The word 'Vaccine' is etymologically closed related to Sanskrit & is derived

Oluseyi Sonaiya

OluseyiSonaiya

I don’t talk about where I work. I don’t add my former employers to my bio, a practice super common in tech for the purpose of lending weight to your

Seek help, Jude

DerLuftmensch

I've got a little shaggy dog tale about etymology. It's a little blue, but I think you'll like it. Let's talk about Fascism.As we know it today, the word fascism

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LearningShakta

in defence of Hindu Word (A Longggg Thread) Yea , now we need to defend hindu word from twitter pandits lol. Anyways arguments against Hindu word :1. It's a derogatory

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

kolatubosun

Once again, Èṣù no longer translates to 'devil' or 'satan' or 'demon' on Google Translate. Some context:http://blog.yorubaname.com/2016/12/16/e%e1%b9%a3u-isnt-the-devil-but-you-knew-that-already/ I missed the last one. Fun fac

Planetary Polymath Emily Lakdawalla

elakdawalla

For love of all that is holy STOP USING "THE MONEY SHOT" TO DESCRIBE IMAGES YOU LIKE please men dear god I'm getting a lot of replies to this that

Christopher Such

Suchmo83

I think teaching vocabulary should focus on two approaches: prioritising particularly valuable vocabulary and teaching children the underlying morphology and etymology of written English so that kids can increasingly work

Dr Crom

DocCrom

#LatinForTheDay - 15 April"Tertia post Veneris cum lux surrexerit Idus, pontifices, forda sacra litate bove.forda ferens bos est fecundaque, dicta ferendo: hinc etiam fetus nomen habere putant."Ovid Fasti

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silverguyun

the etymology behind the word ‘seersucker’ is so interesting... it comes from persian shir-o-shakar, meaning milk and sugar, because of the alternating textures in the fabric fabric history in general

Factualist

FactualistCom

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ameefrah

Ik this is a rhetorical funny question but the reason why is so endearing to me. Basically astronomers way back when discovered 7 "planets" in the solar system (that they

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

If you get high you are stoned but no one ever says "Ah, yeah, this weed is stoning me so much right now." or "I'm going to stone after work."Stoners

ChronHib ✍⌨

ChronHib

The Dindṡenchus often gives fanciful etymologies for names of places. This is not to say that we can do better in every case; sometimes we are also at a loss.

Sean

poetsoup

i'm not an expert, obvs, but IMO referring to the possibility of male violence as "fantasy" multiple x in an argument seems a bit blind & demeaning. an est 6%

joob

oobleejay

Apparently it's International Beaver Day and I'm really curious as to why vagina started being referred to as beaver. "Etymology Online offers that beaver in the gynecological sense is British