Etymology

Wiktionary

aujourd'hui = french "today"
>Etymology
>au + jour + de + hui, literally “on the day of today”; since hui comes from Latin hodie, the phrase literally means "on the day of this day".

I cannot see today anywhere

no one knows the etymology of 'shark'

religion is formed from rem legere: "to choose the very thing" which tells us religion is the exact art of propitiating the external powers

There is so much ass in King James

Same thing in finnish, a bear is "karhu" but was always called "otso" or "mesikämmen" (literally "nectar hand" which would also make it a kenning I think) because "karhu" was his real name that should not be said. Same for foxes etc.

lot's of french phrases are like that. qu'est-ce que c'est ('what's that?') literally means 'what is it that it is?'

I've lost interest in etymology when I discovered that "woman" does not come from "womb man".

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yeah the reality is a little more depressing eh.
it's the ancient word for wife

No just learn Latin andGreek for realsies

buy an etymology dictionary. mind you, you come across a lot of incorrect etymologies

The word "fuck" is actually an abbreviation: Fornicating Under Consent of the King.

Yes, it means "woe (to) man"

Sex means male or female. It then took on the meaning of sexual intercourse in the middle ages, so people started using the French word gender (gendre) as a gentile way to refer to ones sex. So sex=gender.

Taser. Everyone assumes it's related to "laser," but it's a literary acronym ("Tom Swift's Electric Rifle")
dictionary.com/e/taser/

>O.P. (noun): 20th century initialism of 'original poster;' from the French 'postier orginale' (late 18th century). meaning "one who initially tacks a bill upon a town notice board;" from the Latin 'origen posteron' (2nd century AD). literally "one who makes a fence in wild lands" but esp. figuratively "one who takes the innocence of another man via ignoble relations;" synonym of 'homosexual,' 'Sodomite,' 'fag.'

Bad.
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”)

So the word we use to describe things we dont like, is the word that the people used when they had given birth to a hermaphrodite.
pretty based if you ask me. Trannies btfo'd forever.

Robot comes from a Czech word, robota, meaning "forced labor"; the word 'robot' was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti - Rossum's Universal Robots) by the Czech writer, Karel Čapek but it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.

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Trump

Shortening of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trump, jeu tromp, jeu trompe (a trump, or toy, to play with).

And wasn't Eden just that?

Söycuck
Originates from an Uzbekistani Taylor Swift stan forum where it’s used as a derogatory term towards someone you disagree with.
The “söy” part is believed to come from a myth that men who drink söy milk have higher estrogen levels than other men. The other part is pretty self-explanatory because if you’re still reading this post then you’re one.

But why do Icelandic people call a panda bear "Bambus-Björn"?

"Travesty" comes from the same Latin word (transuestire) as "transvestite."

"Swimming hark"

Reminds me of "Istanbul". To the people living around Constantinople/Konstaniyye, it was simply "The City": τον πολ. After a while, the phrase "εσ τον πολ": (going) into the city, become such a common phrase that it superseded the proper name of the place, add in Turkish pronunciation and general degeneration of language and that phrase simply became "is tan bul", Istanbul

I always wondered if there is an interesting relationship between "flesh" and "fish"? They sound so similar

dumb frogeaters amirite

>forced labor
That's an odd way of saying slave, which is what it means

'forced labour' isn't an odd way of saying slave at all

Trans is an ancient Sumerian word and means “attention seeking homosexual”

It's odd because it uses two words when one fits it perfectly, and is the correct translation besides

Just a theory of mine, but in nearly all IE languages I know the words for hear and ear are, as you can see, incredibly similar

probably not, since the etymology of 'slave' is slav

Based retard butting in mindlessly

Looks like it's the same thing in french with cauchemar

You're missing the even more ridiculous pleonasm, au jour d'aujourd'hui:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/au_jour_d'aujourd'hui
"on the day of on the day of this day"

I don't see how they're particularly similar compared to many other word pairs, and even more so I'm baffled why you couldn't simply take five seconds to google it.

The word fuck was in English long before most of those words in the fake acronym. King used to start with a C in OE (cyning).

judith butler can get fucked

Bump

based

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The Latin word vagina originally referred to the sheath of a sword, which like many other Latin words (caedo, battuo, etc.), highlights the connection between sex and violence in the Roman times.

Xenophon's Cyropaedia has good descriptions of the Persian walled gardens.

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Forgot which spanish author said that there is no such thing as "bad words" but only words used wrong. I think all, or most, of our curse words and foul words are euphemisms, words that originally meant something but now mean sex, fucking, penis, etc

Or 'dog'

>Forgot which spanish author said that there is no such thing as "bad words" but only words used wrong.
frowns in wittgenstein

>but only words used wrong.
*wrongly

likewise, there's no actual word for a 'toilet' in english. the word toilet comes from the french expression for washing yourself

The other day I read about St Martin de Tours, who was a Roman soldier before (and after) getting baptized as a Christian. His most famous miracle was when he was riding his horse past a beggar, saw that the guy was naked, and cut his own cloak in half to clothe him. When Martin slept that night he saw Jesus in a dream telling his angels "Martin clad me," and when he woke up the cloak was made whole.
After he died and the cloak became a relic, soldiers revered him as a patriotic military saint and carried pieces of it around on the march. The priests that followed the military and took care of the relic were called something like "cape-keeper," capellanus, which became the word chaplain in French. When they set up camp for long periods they built mini-churches to house the relic called "cape-places," which became the word chapel.

Horseshit. It wasn't a "crusher", it was a goddamn horse who visited you in your sleep and delivered you bad dreams.

>how do you do
>howdy do
>howdy

imagine how fucking terrifying bears would have been to people living basically pastorally with their crude weapons, not to even mention how bad hunter gatherers must have had it.

Is this why some taciturn characters in western settings just say "How?" and respond with "How"
I noticed this with Blaisedell and Morgan in Warlock, I thought it was a little friend codeword thing but then saw somebody use it the same way when parodying a western injun stereotype

Interestingly enough, one of the Grimm brothers was responsible for helping reconstruct some proto-Indo-European words.

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I always thought it was just an Indian thing, but only because of the stereotype. There's a racist bit in a Tom and Jerry short where Jerry is disguised as an Indian, which is the same short where Jerry paints himself and his nephew with shoe polish and act like minstrel blacks, "Shortenin' Bread" is playing.

So is the Danish invasion the reason we in english say "father"?

Experience, from the Latin "Experiri" meaning to try.

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me on the left

And essay comes from Montaigne. In French "essayer" is the verb "to try," and Montaigne called his collection of brief thought type things "Les Essaies," something along the lines of "The Attempts" because they were his efforts to explain the world. In english the word essay stuck to his little brief explanatory form.

No, it came from Flemish during the sea voyages boom

We don't have any word in Flemish resembling "fuck" though

It means Bamboo-Bear, because the eat bamboo.

"fok"? Sommige mensen zijn absoluut echte fokkers.

Because it lives in bamboo and is clumsy like child, duh

laser is literally an acronym too, and spelling it lazer makes it incorrect

>uch-o
>sł-uch
Damn.

There's just GOTTA be some sort of connection between ears and hearing... Wild

A female horse?!

"essayer" translates to "ensayar" (to practice, to rehearse) in Spanish and "un essai" translates to "un ensayo". This is to be expected though since French and Spanish are both romance languages and derive their respective words for "essay" from the Latin "exagium".

No, it's more like a goblin creature thing. Nothing to do with female horses.

The etymology of the word 'sin' is interesting. In Old English and Latin word was associated with guilt and wrongdoing. However, the Biblical term for sin in Greek and Hebrew denote a failure to hit a target. The Greek word meaning sin, hamartia, literally meant missing the mark, especially in spear throwing.

>chest pressure
>crusher
chest pressure means fear not literal external pressure

>Would learning Latin and Greek root words be a good start?
Yes. In sixth grade, my teacher had us frequently watch a program on PBS that traced etymology exactly like that.

saved

>more like a goblin creature thing
This fits well with the German equivalent of "Albtraum" or "Alptraum" (depending on dialect); literally "elf dream".
>en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Albtraum

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In German, the words "oak", "acorn", and "squirrel" are all inextricably linked:
>oak = Eiche
>acorn = Eichel
>squirrel = Eichhörnchen

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Bumping for interest

The term "outlandish" was originally ethnocentric, drawing a distinction between what one's own people would do and what outlanders would do.

I was interested to see if this was related to the German Sinn (feeling, thought) but they look completely unrelated

"Decimation" is one of the most widely misused words in the English language, whereas the meaning of the word is very straight forward and apparent when its elements are considered.

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"Whiskey" is literally "the water of life".
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uisce_beatha

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Related one that blew my mind:
'Zeus Pater' and 'Deus Pater' (sky father, obviously) developed in Greek and Latin respectively from the PIE word for the highest god. Over the centuries, the Greek one was shortened to just Zeus while the Latin one slurred into Jupiter.

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>nightmare
>"to crush"
What total hack wrote this bullshit? It is obviously related to mare, German "Mär", which still today means a fantastic tale. More common is the diminutive "Märchen", which translates as "fairy tale".

One I stumbled across was the word sound in English has many different etymologies depending on the meaning.

That sounds nice. - from Latin sonare
He's of sound mind. - from German gesund
She's sound asleep (same as above)
They sounded the depth before leaving harbour. -from old French sonder
A sound is also a small strait of water. - Old Norse from proto-Germanic for swim

False cognate bruh

Bears are just a part of life to those of us that live in rural areas in bear country, same as they were to those folks, same as muggers and drunk drivers are to city folk. Most of the time you encounter a bear in the wild it just runs off, once in awhile it will just look at you and go on about its business as if you are not even there, quite rare they attack. Wild boar are far more likely to mess you up, they back down from nothing and attack everything, been treed by those fuckers a few times, wild turkeys are almost as bad but not as dangerous, they will give you some very good cuts if they decide they do not like you. Moose are fucking terrifying, they can kill you with no effort, shat myself a little the one time I came face to face with a moose, few feet away, looking me right in the eye, he snorts, I shit, he walks off, probably laughing his ass off. Lone wolves are pretty freaky, they will definitely check you out and even stalk you abit, but wolf attacks are exceedingly rare. Mountain lions are almost as bad, but they like the chase and generally ignore people except for joggers and bikers, they also do not seem to like the taste of people, loose interest after their teeth sink in.

what about feral hogs

Water closet?

Vague memory that there was some feral hog meme and suspect that is what you are getting at. Wild boar are feral pigs, the vast majority of feral domestic pigs are hybrid descendants of wild boars and domestic pigs, just as nasty as wild boars. Never encountered a domestic pig gone feral, no idea what they are like.

"Nightmare" shares that similar idea in Finnish, too. The Finnish word is "painajainen" which basically means "a creature that is pressing you down". Both are related to the sensation of heightened gravity during sleep paralysis, as that feeling is pressing you down like a goblin sitting on you would.

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>there's no actual word for toilet in English
except there is- toilet

karhu come from karhea, otso ohto etc, are forms of the original name oksi

>nigger literally just means black
I don't know what I expected.

"Nice" is still used this way whenever it is applied to a person, it always has an element of being a fool.

I don't understand your first one. Besides British spelling would be send me the cheque on the latter. But what does that have to do with Shah?

There's an eponym: Crapper.

lmgtfy.com/?q=check etymology

Why fucking post in this thread if you can't discuss it or back it up with your own explanation.

Sure, people could just google anything, but sometimes they want to communicate with a person that just said something, especially when it is near-unitelligible.

Passive aggressive little dickhead.

yawn, i dont really care if you get it or not. now piss off.

medveď in slavic languages literally means "the one who knows where the honey is“

I understand now, you copied something from that website etymonline:

>checkmate," from Vulgar Latin *scaccus, from Arabic shah, from Persian shah "king," the principal piece in a chess game

completely misunderstood it, assumed it was talking to the etymology of check in the way you described and then panicked when I ask you about it because it clearly didn't make sense.

Read the entire article next time, dummy.

cool, thanks for the update

robota in czech just means labor, not forced labor

What's actually funny is how much you committed to this and were wrong anyway.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/check#Etymology_1

Every variation including cheque is covered.

KEK

Actually the word for gender in french is "genre" and not "gendre". "Gendre" means "son in law".

>wrong anyway

I didn't at anypoint say you were wrong, what I'm saying is that you didn't understand the steps from shah to mordern check usage. Which is what I wanted clarification from.

I don't doubt the origin, what I doubt is that you knew what the fuck you were talking about, which the backstory of usage is what etymology is about not just "x comes from y".

You obviously have poor comprehension skills and are possible are ESL. So I won't trouble you any further.

I came into this wanting to know more, it's not my fault you didn't actually know and tried to sidestep, is it?

write another essay dude, i'll definitely read it this time.

You're not wrong, but do remember we drove bears to extinction with just spears and dogs.

That's only if you say something like "nice guy's finish last."

The word for noble in PIE is 'atlos'.

Water closet, latrine, privy, shitter, crapper; the list is extensive.

And between eyes and seeing...oh wait

He's talking about Old French, probably even the Anglonorman dialect. It's the Middleages bro.

Yeah it's a dumb little bit. It just means sleep paralysis and would've been associated with some otherworldly being coming in your waking sleep.

>the way an the etymological origin of a word was used, several languages and thousands years deep, means you're using it wrong
ok retard

Because most of the time when English people were talking to French people about animals, they were at meat markets, most English names for meat are the French names for the animal
>Mutton from mouton (sheep)
>Beef from boeuf (from Latin bos for ox or cattle)
>Venison from venesoun meaning hunted game (from Latin venari, to hunt)

Mon Dieu!

how bout loo

>ok retard
The word has a specific meaning. If the meaning is obfuscated with other meanings then we lose the capability of readily expressing that specific idea. I recently had someone tell me about an incident where the instructor improperly used "decimation" when discussing the result of a battle between the Romans and a German tribe. Given this context, it created confusion with students that actually understand the word.

Aber nein, mein Freund; flesh = Fleisch.

>If the meaning is obfuscated with other meanings then we lose the capability of readily expressing that specific idea
This is a myth, Semantic Widening has never lowered the expressivity of a language. The meanings of English words have changed so much over the last millennium that OE and modern English aren't even mutually comprehensible, and yet we still express things just as well today.
In your own example, the confusion was caused precisely because people had been fed a defunct definition of that word by other morons like yourself. No different than if someone told them 'career' meant 'trajectory of a falling object' and then they got confused when another person discussed their 'career choices'.

"Konnichiha" ("ha" pronounced "wa") literally means something like 'As for this day' and Japanese used to add something after such as 'ikaga desu ka?' which would mean 'As for this day, how are you?' but was eventually shortened to simply konnichiha.

Express for me then the meaning of "decimation" using a different word.

matrix
>Borrowed from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), from māter (“mother”).

matter
>From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin materia (“matter, stuff, material”), derivative of Latin mater (“mother”).

In german the words for sheath and for vagina are also the same funnily enough.

So is the word for glans penis, which is Eichel

It's from Michael Shermer's The Believing Brain.

I researched the Spanish word for it ("pesadilla") and it expresses the same idea. It says that nightmares were believed to be the work of monsters who sat on asleep people's chests and crushed them with their weight ("peso").

>glans
itself comes from acorn

decanonification

did not take long for robots to get sjws

Also lavatory

you can see from the whole "nice guy" debate how a sliver of condescension is still etymologically baked into the word.

>O yes, mon loup. How much cost? Waterloo. water closet

>missed "posterior" joke
sigh.

I purposefully omitted that option because I felt it to be more general to the room than to the device itself, though some of my choices may suffer that defect themselves. I would also include "outhouse" if we were to open the envelope a bit; plus, I omitted "john" in my initial list that I think applies well to the device.

Science and Schizo have the same root
-cut, split, divide, (name, recognize, know)

Nature sucks. Everyone who listens to Ted K is going to get mauled

Also referred to as "alpdruck", similar to the crushing in OP

If you're a pasta cook remember to remove the e
>postier orginal