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I'm re-listening to Kevin Stroud's The History of the English Language, and it is as good as I remember. Here are words that resulted from the Indo-European word wegh, which became weg in Germanic languages, and via in Latin. It's a word which indicated motion:
Way
Weigh
Wag
Wagon
Wiggle (from Dutch)
Waggle (from Anglo Saxon)
Via (Latin)
Voyage
Convey
Convoy
Devious
Obvious
Deviate
curmudgeon: a case study in bad etymology, or the lengths people will go to say “I don’t know”
#introduction I consume too much #coffee and solve too many #crosswords and #chess puzzles. ¶ I do as much #reading as I can: #poetry, #flash, #essays, #books of all sorts (#literary fiction + #scifi, #mysteries, and #espionage. I read what I like, when I like! ¶ I was once an upstanding member of the #writing community---creator of #poetry and short #essays on #words and #etymology, among other things---and am working on my return. ¶ I have two dogs (seen here) and one spouse (not seen here).
The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PRIDE/REPRESENT #wotd #pride #represent #PrideMonth #Pride2025 #pridemonth2025 
@apodoxus@mastodon.onlineSo "deranged" originally meant "disturbed"? Interesting.
Bananas are commonly known as bananas or banano, but they also go by many regional names such as plátanos, guineos, cambures, gualeles, or mínimos. That’s quite a linguistic diversity!
Keep reading here: https://mapologies.com/el-atlas/#Banana
The word #gymnasium comes from Latin, borrowed from Greek, meaning “public place for physical exercises” or “school for gymnastics”.
The Greek root gymnos (γυμνός) means “naked,” because ancient Greek athletes trained and competed nude.
The verb gymnazein (γυμνάζειν) meant “to exercise or train naked”
Seen on Facebook, and don't know where it comes from:
"To 'saunter' originally meant to visit the 'sacred places' (sainte-terre) - and therefore not according to a rigidly laid out plan; not with a relentlessly pursued aim or goal; but rather with a generalized intent of lovingly seeing what is there, and of being open to being moved spiritually by God. It is a testament to the grimly utilitarian character of our culture that the word now has only the connotation of 'pointless and non-strenuous walking around.'"
The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is TACO/TACK/TAIL #wotd #taco #tack #tail #TACOTrump
#Etymology thought I had yesterday: is the #Finnish word #kota related to the English word #cottage? 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.
fog – 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”).
#fog #foggyfriday #fotofreitag #photography #etymologie #etymology #nightphotography
![Eine Reihe Bagger im nebeligen Laternenschein auf einem Werksgelände. [Nikkor Z 24–120mm f/4.0 S auf Nikon Z5]](https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/595/477/127/730/903/original/115d69f2517321d0.jpeg "Eine Reihe Bagger im nebeligen Laternenschein auf einem Werksgelände. [Nikkor Z 24–120mm f/4.0 S auf Nikon Z5]")
