The surprisingly connected origins of greedflation, yearn, soufflé, blow, and budget.
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #greedflation #yearn #soufflé #blow #budget
It’s #WorldBookDay! Here’s our video about the history of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOK6kB9ytIo
Happy #EnglishLanguageDay! For a look back at the origins of this language, here’s our video on looking for the Earliest English Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QxjzaL1Wc
Happy #ShakespeareDay! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXVQ
I had always wondered why there were streets in my county in Central Texas named Bois d'arc, and never knew where the name originated. I'm now learning that Bois d'arc is apparently the French name for the trees that grow what I know to be called "horse apples". Apparently the trees are actually called Osage orange trees, or the hedge apple tree (maclura pomifera).
"The voice that speaks in him, speaks low, but he who listens with a third ear hears also what is expressed almost noiselessly, what is said #pianissimo." #etymology #words #storytelling #music #ancient #piano #hearing #listening
http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/23/ancient-word-of-the-day-pianissimo/
Happy #EarthDay! To celebrate, here’s our video about the Food Web, and how it’s a better model for ecosystems than the food chain. We made it for our friend the @RvingNaturalist’s channel, and she has a lot more videos there about nature and ecology that you should check out! https://youtu.be/OxKvcA4NpaQ
#TIL that the German words installieren and einstellen are actually doublets. The French word installer (> installieren) actually comes from Medieval Latin īnstallāre where the second part comes from Frankish, a Germanic language, and is cognate w/ EN stall, DE/NL stellen. #Etymology #Germanistik #GermanicLanguages
The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is ASTRONAUT/STAR/NOISE #wotd #astronaut #star #noise #BlueOrigin #KatyPerry #katyinspace
Hey, it’s #BigWordDay! Surprisingly, few of our etymological videos centre on big words, but we’ve done a couple of shorts about some bigger words, like Kenspeckle and Bedizened: https://youtu.be/rpFH70CPMWA
The Secret Gay Slang of the Philippines
https://youtube.com/shorts/XiMiEOlC-sI?si=pggNT-DpqeJLW3oQ
> #language #linguistics #etymology #slang #lgbt #philippines #tagalog #dialect
A Swiss dish food mystery! https://waywordradio.org/vogelheu/ And lots more in the in the latest new episode: https://waywordradio.org/real-corker/ #language #etymology #podcast #linguistics
"The White Album", auf Deutsch schlicht "Das weiße Weiße".
Happy #InternationalAmateurRadioDay! The history of the development of amateur radio is pretty fascinating, and we get into it in the second half of our video on Amateur Sport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im0C18vcyFE
#etymology musing. Was thinking about radius, radiation, and wondering whether Rad (wheel) in German is related, and it seems probably not, but roth in #Irish seems to be related to Rad! And Lasta (cargo) in Irish may be from Old English word of Germanic origin (related to "laden"), which means (I think) the Irish for cargo bike "rothar lasta" is fairly closely cognate with the German Lastenrad
(Not sure "rothar lasta" is standard, but it is in the gaeilge option here:
https://www.luxmea.com/ga/Light-And-Convenient-Two-wheeled-Cargo-Bike-for-Home-Travel-pd507085568.html)
**sheriff / reeve**
Dave Wilton
“_The word sheriff comes from the Old English scirgerefa (shire-reeve). A gerefa, or reeve in Present-Day spelling, was the chief official who administrated justice and collected taxes in a region._”
https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/sheriff-reeve/.
#English #Language #Words #Etymology #Linguistics @linguistics
