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Metin Hamarat<p>Budha --&gt; India, ~2500 years ago.</p><p>idol (Eng) = bat (Iran)<br>idol (Eng) = almaebud (Arabic)</p><p>almaeBUD of Arabic is from BUDha of India.</p><p>1 BUD (was a sculpture) of India turned to many BUDs in middle east as many sculptures.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
Projektionsyta<p>The Irish words for the universe (cruinne) and a meeting (cruinniú) seems* to have a common stem, cruinn, being round, roundness. It's not hard to understand how that would be. But it's a different angle on things than in Latin or Germanic languages, I believe. </p><p>'* Caveat: I'm not sure, it's a speculative inference based on observation... </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Gaeilge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaeilge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/SpeculativeEtymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeculativeEtymology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universe</span></a></p>
Metin Hamarat<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Annihilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Annihilation</span></a> radiation and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nihilism</span></a> .</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p>There is an urban legend claiming that the full version of the saying “The customer is always right” is “The customer is always right is matters of taste”, but this is FALSE. There is no evidence of anyone of note coining this longer phrase.</p><p>The most likely original saying is “Assume that the customer is right until it is plain beyond all question that he is not”, attributed to Marshall Field; or “Le client n’a jamais tort” (The customer is always in the right), attributed to César Ritz.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TodayILearned</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/idiom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiom</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cust</span><span class="invisible">omer_is_always_right</span></a></p>
Michæl La💤<p>Nerd fact: The word "census" is a 4th declension noun in Latin, so its Latin plural is actually also "census". <br>So the English plural is "censuses" or "census", but never "censi".<br><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/census" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wiktionary.org/wiki/census</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I've just had to email someone to request data from more than one round of a Census collection, so I looked it up.<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a></p>
Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>The surprisingly connected origins of "helicopter" and "wallet". </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wordnerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wordnerd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/lingcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lingcomm</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/helicopter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>helicopter</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wallet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wallet</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/turning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turning</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kHN00ceP8zs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/kHN00ceP8zs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>The surprisingly connected origins of "helicopter" and "wallet". </p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wordnerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wordnerd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/lingcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lingcomm</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/helicopter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>helicopter</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wallet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wallet</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/turning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turning</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/kHN00ceP8zs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/kHN00ceP8zs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Naomi PLong, silly and mostly ignorant word-nerdery about German, grammatical gender, compound nouns, and English
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>**Etymology: Middle Ages / Medieval**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/middle-ages-medieval/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordorigins-org.ghost.io/middl</span><span class="invisible">e-ages-medieval/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/MiddleAges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleAges</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span></p>
Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>The <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ConnectedAtBirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConnectedAtBirth</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> of the week is TEXT/SUBTLE <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wotd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>text</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/subtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subtle</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BackToSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BackToSchool</span></a></p>
Joshua McNeill<p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a> the term <a href="https://h4.io/tags/yuppie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yuppie</span></a>, or at least the "yup" part, is an <a href="https://h4.io/tags/acronym" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acronym</span></a> for "young <a href="https://h4.io/tags/urban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>urban</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/professional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professional</span></a>". While the sort of people I interview in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/rural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rural</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> for my <a href="https://h4.io/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> are obviously not <a href="https://h4.io/tags/yuppies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yuppies</span></a> -- I blame my lack of knowledge on the term on that -- a surprising number of these <a href="https://h4.io/tags/francophones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>francophones</span></a> and <a href="https://h4.io/tags/creolophones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creolophones</span></a> are white collar <a href="https://h4.io/tags/professionals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professionals</span></a>, specifically many are <a href="https://h4.io/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>teachers</span></a>, <a href="https://h4.io/tags/principals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>principals</span></a>, and <a href="https://h4.io/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawyers</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/lexicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lexicology</span></a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociolinguistics</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>**Etymology: cotton-picking / cotton-picker**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/cotton-picking-cotton-picker/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordorigins-org.ghost.io/cotto</span><span class="invisible">n-picking-cotton-picker/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linguistics</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Image</span></a> attribution: unknown source, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cotton_pickers_and_overseer_around_1850.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil</span><span class="invisible">e:Cotton_pickers_and_overseer_around_1850.jpg</span></a>.</p>
Dave J<p>You know the whole fracas over whether GIF is pronounced with a hard or a soft G?</p><p>A female cat is a queen; an entire male is a tom. A neutered male, however, has been called a gib since at least the 14th Century. And despite the term’s great age, there’s *still* no consensus—you guessed it—on whether it’s pronounced with a hard or a soft G.</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a></p>
Dave Rahardja<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TodayILearned</span></a> that “roach” referring to the fish predates “cockroach” referring to the insect.</p><p>The world “cockroach” is a folk-etymologized form of the Spanish “cucaracha”. English speakers reached for the word “roach” to fit the sound of the second half.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a></p>
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Naomi P

Spouse was wondering about the etymology of “record” in English because he’s learning Spanish and apparently it means “remember”. (Edit: the Spanish is spelled differently, though it sounds similar.)

It turns out that English’s “record” comes from Old French and Latin “remember”.

That’s interesting on its own (a record being a memory is poetic). But then it turns out that the “-cord” part of record comes from the Latin word for “heart”. So I’m guessing that the English phrase “by heart” has much the same origin.

I’ve always liked that playing memorized music on an instrument is called “playing by heart”.

#words #etymology

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etymonlineRecord - Etymology, Origin & MeaningOriginating c.1200 from Old French recorder and Latin recordari, meaning "remember" or "recount," record as a noun (c.1300) means a written account or testimony.
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