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Maxwell (it/its)Many English words relating to bicycles are borrowed from modern French (e.g. derailleur) but pannier dates back to Middle English, having been borrowed from Old French. It originally referred to similar bags fitted to pack animals.<a href="https://meow.social/tags/Cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cycling</a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a>

Mark A. RaynerI am greatly enjoying the audiobook of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@stephenfry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@stephenfry</a>'s Mythos, but I imagine this may be the jar situation in his home.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/greek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greek</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humour</a>

Elflings<a href="https://spacey.space/@isaackuo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@isaackuo</a> Czech playwright Karel Čapek wrote the 1920 play Rossum’s Universal Robots, the origin of the term robot. He based it upon the word for forced labor. A lot of early sci-fi tries to emulate the Slavic pronunciation. Rod Serling talked about ro-bits in a lot of the original Twilight Zone episodes, among others. These days anyone saying that is usually trying to be funny, probably from how Futurama liked to make fun of it. <a href="https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxjIdm-0cSTydeK_cZzJziZ5VaoU58_Bav?si=9uzkgZHNEbSPFibI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxjIdm-0cSTydeK_cZzJziZ5VaoU58_Bav?si=9uzkgZHNEbSPFibI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/RUR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RUR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/robit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#robit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#robot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/TZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TZ</a>

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦1. this one should have been obvious to me, but spelling it out brought clarity: Europeans, for millennia, developed garments that were, generally, gender neutral. then, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pandemic</a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plague</a> of 1328 happened and things changed. 2. he goes a bit into the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> of the word MODA/MODE, but doesn’t explore it in English even though he quotes several English laws about dress. i reckoned that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fashion</a> in english is top down, whereas <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/moda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moda</a> in Romance languages is bottom up, so…🧵

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭I got curious to see what’s the longest named-after (P138) chain recorded in <a href="https://wikis.world/@wikidata" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wikidata</a> and I found the following non-fictional list of 8 items using <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/WDQS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WDQS</a>:1. USS Indianapolis 2. Indianapolis 3. Indiana 4. Indiana Territory 5. American Indians 6. Indians 7. India 8. Indus RiverThere are likely longer chains, but they are not yet recorded in <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Wikidata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikidata</a>.<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Stefan BohacekA puzzling origin of the word "quiz"."The earliest known appearance of the word quiz in print, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), is surprisingly recent—1782—and the word then referred to an odd-looking person. The etymology of the word is unknown."<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/quiz/A-history-of-quizzing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/topic/quiz/A-history-of-quizzing</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quiz</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Luke DornyI’d be curious to find a word of the day account here. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/wotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wotd</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

AbieEtymology of the day: Pissant used to mean... Ant ?!! 🐜 <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/pissant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.etymonline.com/word/pissant</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/wordoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordoftheday</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/motdujour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#motdujour</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Palatsi Records<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intro</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> I'm <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TuomasPalonen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TuomasPalonen</a> Helsinki-based <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musician</a>, writer etc. I do one project/album/style at a time with my label <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Palatsi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palatsi</a> acting as a metaproject. Most recent album is Thomas Ignatius, <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> music with an 80s <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/synthesizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#synthesizer</a> bringing "a tasty retro-futuristic incongruity" as put by <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Wiremagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wiremagazine</a>. I am also a <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> writer with a book on <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> coming up in Sept '25 by <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SKSKirjat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SKSKirjat</a>. At daytime I work at the <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/NationalLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalLibrary</a> of Finland on subject headings, metadata etc.

IT NewsHow the Main Frame Became the Mainframe: an Etymological Dissertation - In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/mainframe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mainframe</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®How is this possible?The origin of the name of the U.S. state of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oregon</a> is unknown.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Oregon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Oregon</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meaning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Martin RundkvistEng. "kennel" descends from Lat. "canis".<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>

llewellydoes anyone use "id" in the sense of the disturbing or frightening aspects of the unconscious mind, anymore?It sometimes seems this usage (from a particular translation of Freud) was common during most of the 20th century, but has since become rare. <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>

Stan CareyAWKNESS sounds like a millennial coinage, but it's a word centuries old meaning "wrongness, irrationality, perversity, untowardness, awkwardness, ineptitude".That definition is from the OED, which labels AWKNESS obsolete. But it's been reinvented: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/awkness-an-old-word-made-new-again/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/awkness-an-old-word-made-new-again/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slang</a>

Boris RybalkoSince no words in the english language can properly describe what is happening in Palestine at the hands of the z*onists right now, I made one.I'm no linguistic expert, but something is better than nothing.-------------------Plirinaire /plɪɹɪnɛə/ (UK) - /plɪɹɪnɛ(ə)ɹ/ (US) - /plɪɹɪnɛː/ (AU) - /pləɹəniə/ (NZ) •  noun"the complete systematic extermination, destruction, deracination, and dehumanisation of an entire peoples and their territories"noun: plirinaire; plural noun: plirinaires~ Usage Examples"The reconstruction of destroyed civilian infastructure following the events of the Palestinian Plirinaire would take many decades.""Historical records prove that the Spanish were responsible for committing a plirinaire against the Taíno peoples, through a campaign of genocide, cultural destruction, forced labour, and the deliberate spread of foreign diseases, resulting in the near extinction of the Taíno peoples."Synonyms → genocide, deracination, extermination, erasure, ethnic cleansingEtymology → πλήρης + ἀναιρέωπλήρης - complete, absoluteἀναιρεῖν / ἀναιρέω - destroy, bring to nothing<a href="https://aus.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palestine</a>

Deborah PickettThe word “canter” (the horse gait) is a contraction of “Canterbury pace”, based on the easy speed at which pilgrims rode to the Shrine to Thomas a Becket there. <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a>

Deborah PickettI just learned that the English word “cohort” comes from Latin words meaning “together in a garden”. People you do horticulture with are your cohort, literally. <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://old.mermaid.town/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

DanielThe French word for neighbour is voisin. It's descended from the Latin word vicinus, which is also where the English vicinity comes from.All of these are in turn derived from the Latin word vicus, which refers to a row of streets or a village. In fact, the English word village ultimately goes back to this same word, via French.But English also took the word vicus more directly from Latin: it's why many English place-names end in -wick or -wich. You can see this borrowing happened at an early point, since these place-names still have the W sound, which is how the letter V was pronounced in Classical Latin. It only shifted to a V sound later on.<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>

Fedi.VideoAnother Christmas video list from <a href="https://tilvids.com/accounts/alliterative" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alliterative</a>, this time looking at the interesting and amusing etymologies of the gifts in "The Twelve Days of Christmas":🎄 <a href="https://fedi.video/w/p/oXTUkCkVLQaHRj9mkSiHJx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedi.video/w/p/oXTUkCkVLQaHRj9mkSiHJx</a><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Christmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christmas</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Xmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xmas</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishLanguage</a>

Fedi.VideoThe excellent <a href="https://tilvids.com/accounts/alliterative" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alliterative</a> has done a complete set of videos about the origins of the names of Father Christmas's reindeer. You can watch them all at this playlist:🎄 <a href="https://fedi.video/w/p/nazBQe5Jj1dMKJo7vV4fkP" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedi.video/w/p/nazBQe5Jj1dMKJo7vV4fkP</a><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Reindeer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reindeer</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Christmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christmas</a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Etymology</a>

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