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Kristoffer Lawson<a href="https://attractive.space/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> thought I had yesterday: is the <a href="https://attractive.space/tags/Finnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finnish</a> word <a href="https://attractive.space/tags/kota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kota</a> related to the English word <a href="https://attractive.space/tags/cottage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cottage</a>? Apparently the latter comes from Old Norse if you go back far enough, and it wouldn’t be surprising to find Norse borrowed it through Saami, or vice versa.

sinnfreifog – origin uncertain; Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic feukaną (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from pew-, pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”), in which case related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/fog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fog</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/foggyfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foggyfriday</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/fotofreitag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fotofreitag</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/etymologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymologie</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nightphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nightphotography</a>

Wordorigins.orgdeep state<a href="https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deep-state" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/deep-state</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wordorigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordorigins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotThe <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ConnectedAtBirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConnectedAtBirth</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> of the week is HABEAS CORPUS/PROHIBIT/MIDRIFF <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wotd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HabeasCorpus</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/prohibit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prohibit</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/midriff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#midriff</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SanDiego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SanDiego</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Atlanta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®TIL about Adam Aleksic<a href="https://www.etymologynerd.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.etymologynerd.com</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Peter BrodersenSo, yesterday I wrote about my working route planner for Denmark that refuses to drive on roads named after men.This is based on work I have been doing on OpenStreetMap. I have added information for about 30-40,000 individual Danish roads (about 120-150,000 ways in OSM) linking to Wikidata topics. Afterwards I have put up a frontend to search for street names and topics.My site is in Danish, but the idea still gets through: <a href="https://navne.findvej.dk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://navne.findvej.dk/</a><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a>

Martin RundkvistThe German word for a gay man, *Schwul*, is attested since the 1840s in Berlin. It goes back to an adjective *schwül* that referred to weather and meant 'sultry, close, oppressive, muggy'. This was a kind of joke on the euphemism *warmer Bruder*, 'warm brother'. *Schwul* is cognate with Eng. *sweltering* and Sw. *sval*.<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schwul#German" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schwul#German</a><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a>

𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉We have quite many self-sown Aquilegias/Columbines in our garden, mostly purple. This one is a particularly beautiful colour, I think. And it really looks like a group of doves (columbae, hence the name), huddled in a circle, beak to beak.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gardening</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#botany</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

DanielObstetrics is the science concerned with pregnancy and childbirth. It's derived from the Latin word for a midwife: obstetrix.That word is made up of three parts: a woman (-trix) who stands (-ste-) opposite (ob-). The idea is that a midwife stands in front of the one giving birth.But there's another English word that shares two of its roots with obstetrics. If there's a thing standing in front of you that's quite a bit more adversarial than a midwife, that is called an obstacle.<a href="https://autistics.life/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotHappy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SherlockHolmesDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SherlockHolmesDay</a>! One of our earliest videos was all about Holmes – and his connections to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJ1fdAdn5w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJ1fdAdn5w</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/SherlockHolmes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SherlockHolmes</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Holmes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Holmes</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Gawain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gawain</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotHappy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/DinosaurDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DinosaurDay</a>! Time to dig back into our past videos, for the early history of fossil hunting and paleontology’s roots: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Dinosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dinosaur</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fossil</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paleontology</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotHappy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FlowerDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FlowerDay</a>! Here are some lovely etymological blooms to help celebrate: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Dpzgcm9jY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Dpzgcm9jY</a><a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordNerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/LingComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LingComm</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Flowers</a>

Jan R. BoehnkeWord learned today:"inchoate" imperfectly formed or formulated according to <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inchoate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inchoate</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/inchoate" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.etymonline.com/word/inchoate</a>Oxford English Dictionary states "About 0.1 occurrences per million words in modern written English"I am an avid reader of unabridged English literature for nearly three decades now. I was today years old to come across* this word for the first** time... 😂 * in meeting minutes of a university committee** pretty, pretty sureEdit: * added

Alliterative/Endless KnotThe <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ConnectedAtBirth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConnectedAtBirth</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> of the week is GRIFT/GRUB/CRAWL <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wotd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grift</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/grub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grub</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/crawl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crawl</a>

kamatahvel🇺🇦What's that you ask? "What about religion?" "Religion" comes to English from Latin religionem, which seems to be derived from relegere "go through again" (i.e., in reading or thought), which itself is from re- "again" and legere "read". So, really "religion" is just repetitive reading, which explains why the faith I identify most with is sci-fi?But wait, there's more! There's an interpretation that's more accepted by modern writers that connects "religion" with religare "to bind fast", in the sense of making obligations or bonds between humans and gods. Note that here the re- beginning would just be an intensive, which is a fancy way of saying the action would be denoted with stronger, more forceful or more concentrated action than the regular root form of the verb.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

kamatahvel🇺🇦Ok now that I've trapped you in my thread, isn't it weird that it's sacRILEGious and not sacRELIGious? It always trips me up. Anyway, its root (sacrilege) comes from Latin sacrilegium "temple-robber, stealer of sacred things" (sacri ~ "sacred thing", legium = leger ~ "to steal"). So, if you ever need to spell this out, remember sacri+lege not sac+relig. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

DanielWhat does a magic spell have to do with spelling? Is it that you can write a spell down? Not necessarily. If you go back in time far enough, spelling something meant to say or pronounce something. A spell was simply an utterance. The meaning shifted to refer specifically to a magical utterance.But the old meaning is somewhat preserved in the Christian term for the "good news" that proselytisers brought: the "good spell" or "gospel."<a href="https://autistics.life/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Martin Rundkvist"Tulip" is a failed Western attempt to say "turban" in Turkish. Such flowers were worn in your turban. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

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