#Etymology

DONATE BLOOD❤ Info pinned

OtaheitiApple

I have learnt more about vanilla than someone whose ass isn't ever going to grow it needs to. Fun tidbits:.It's expensive as shit.It has to be hand-pollinated for commercial purposes.Fake

Medlife Crisis (Rohin)

MedCrisis

What are some drug names with cool origins?Rapamycin from Rapa Nui IslandWarfarin from Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationMorphine from MorpheusLasix (is that one an urban myth?)Emla from Eutectic Mixture of Local

Aliah ✨

AliahLuck

there has to be a linguistic reason for this. I will find it.https://twitter.com/BlairImani/status/1313305773401731072 I blame Latin. Let me find out why these losers didn't just call it octem. Okay wow.

𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝕔𝕒𝕥🎷

__coolcat

i’ve seen way too many self-identified spiritualists, conspiracy researchers, & truth-seekers hearing that their theories have the potential to be wrong, which is incredibly ironic. here is what i’ve noticed.

Makadiwata 🌿

makadiwata

Dear Filipinx-Americans, this isn’t how you celebrate pre-Filipino cultures and LGBTQIA+ history — not with anachronisms, not with bad takes, not with bad scholarship passed off as history. Pakiusap.(Images from

Nóra Veszprémi

NVeszpremi

Time for another Hungarian linguistics thread. Featuring my favourite topic in etymology: taboo words.Well, the thread won’t really use taboo words. God forbid. Those are taboo!Instead, it will look at

Jason Millar

jasondmillar

On the subject of the right of words to have more than one politically correct meaning, I highly recommend getting access to the OED. This is often available with a

Mark بو غيث

StillReforming

'Banter' is an English word with a not-so-clear-cut history ... According to Archie Bland of The Guardian:"The first usage recorded in the OED comes from noted Restoration lad Thomas d’Urfey,

moses moon: $thotscholar 🍒🚲 🏳️‍🌈

thotscholar

Same erroneous, uninformed energy in both these screens. This is false. Hoe/heaux is AAVE and is applied to all black (presumed) women and therefore can be reclaimed by all black

True Indology

TIinExile

I cannot see what he wrote.That primate blocked me after I exposed his lies.If this rat is not afraid of the truth and does not fear getting exposed, I challenge

Discipulum ex Quinque

Keluar_Gua

Ah, this is since the word „apple“ used to be equivalent to „fruit“, as in to describe any kind of fruit. That is the etymology of the word. The word

Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš

samopriya

#IndoAryan faunal etymology!#Khowar òhc /ôht͡s/ ('bear'), loan from a #Nuristani language like #Waigali.Although cognate to #Sanskrit ŕ̥kṣaḣ, the Khowar form is probably not descended from it, i.e., not native to

Claire

Miandre

People often joke about “chai tea” and “naan bread” being tautological but this isn’t actually how borrowing works. Chai doesn’t mean tea and naan doesn’t mean bread in English. We

colinpurrington

colinpurrington

Thread and PSA about Houdini flies (Cacoxenus indagator) for folks with bee hotels. When I first saw one at my bee hotel in 2019 I thought it was just a

Shabbir Lakha

ShabbirLakha

Hold on. “Israeli military atrocities in the West Bank” is antisemitic? You mean criticising the occupation, military enforced population transfer, use of torture and imprisonment without trial incl of minors

Cisalpine Celtic Language and Literacy

CCeLL_project

Taking up the discussion of the PN Artebuθz on the pot from Poetovio – we are looking for a second element to go with putative arto- 'bear'. boud- 'victory' is