The Interesting Etymology Behind 70 Words | Mental Floss

The origins of the words denim and jeans are interesting. When 19th-century entrepreneur Levi Strauss imported material for the new kind of pants he produced, he. saw the wording DE NIMES ( French for "from Nîmes,," the city of origin of the material) and GENES (French for "Genoa," the Italian port city the material was exported from) printed on the containers or packages.

Juggernaut does indeed come from Jagannath - the reason being that when the Chariot of Jagannath moves in annual procession on the road, it cannot, for any reason, be stopped - even if a person slips under its wheels.

I'm seeing a correlation here. Somebody that controls this realm consider us cattle. Remember herd immunity?

I'm sinister and leftist.

The word robot is much older than you think, and means to work on household chores.

Do so wish you have decent subtitles 😢

I find it ironic about vaccine possibly coming from horses and not cows and the media pushes an actual vaccine as a horse dewormer. Crazy world we live in

My 7th grade history teacher made us do a "word analysis" every week. It was 5 words relevant to the material covered in class during the week. We had to have 2 definitions of the word, an etymology, and 2 sentences where the word was used...and we had to cite the sources of those definitions and sentences. I have been fascinated with etymologies ever since! Thanks Capt. Williams!

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Ocean is Oc ,to look/see ,ean/eon ,far,vast

Ma'am, though you speak very fast, I can still understand you because of your good enunciation of your words! Thank you!

etymology is my special interest!!!

(2:25) I find it interesting how "capere" becomes "caperay", but "capia" didn't become "capiey". English speakers adding random diphthongs to words without diphthongs is weird but interesting.

Yooooo this is like fun with flags but even better!

Take a breath love

Marco Polo gave absolutely no etymology for "assassin" (in fact he didn't use the word at all), so he certainly didn't originate or repeat any claim of an association with hashish. What he wrote was that Hasan ibn Sabah gave his followers a potion, that's it. The association of "assassin" with "hashish" wasn't made till the 19th century by European writers who were not scholars in the modern sense. I mean, Polo's writings are available for free online, it would've taken all of two minutes to check your sources.

I thought that 'chess' derived from Persian 'Shah dresh' (Shah's dread - xadrez in Portuguese, ajedrez in Spanish).

Vaca 🐄🇪🇸 , vak 🇸🇰 (bag, sac🇬🇧).
Funny how those languages ​​are linked. A false friend everywhere.

There is a type of ocean fish called a dolphin. You've probably seen it offered in stores and restaurants under its more market-friendly Hawaiian name, mahi-mahi. It's thought they are called this because they swim ahead of sailing ships, the way porpoise dolphins do.

Testicle from avocados 🥑persian NORANGE,AN ORANGE ,the colour orange is NORANGY,.GHAHVE,is coffee, so,colour Brown is ,GHAHVEIE.

16... Si Nis Terr , As it starts (Wrong/Dark)
24...Pun(Work) Dit (Knows/knowet/Day"bright) =Specialist
29... Nim (Help)Rod(None/Without) Un helped. Self done.
34...Del (to come out) Hin(Enter) come out and enter back

3... Kap (Grab,To Get) Albanian Gheg
7...Pa An (everywhere) Dem (Damage)
8... La (Leave/Let/Wash-Law) Bor (Done-Snow) Leave Done(Work)
14... Mor (Take) ta Gje (Will find back to you)

let me lend an O live B ranch.
a dunce is considered a dumb person who doesn't get it because they dont understand that a dunce was a person who was dunked in the sea.

it's tough but you can learn the genuine meaning of letters online. that will reveal much more truth.

a canary can fly in the air e
ferry fairy father arise
a canine can in e
NIN means god/dog
the dog go'd in the aire

doggone dagger dogetaire dagger eyes
the dag ger rise

you are being lied to about your language.

Carthusian is pronounced Car-Tu-see-an. It’s a French word, so Th is pronounced as T, even if written. Foreign words excepted, I’m not sure how they handle them, but given the prevalence of Th in English, I hear a lot of Francophones pronouncing it like D when speaking English, or even Zh. It’s always tough to reproduce sounds not in one’s native language, like the Greek Kh, for me.

We all had a good laugh when the real estate agent for a friend listed his property like this: “with a landscaped patio for dining al dente!” (Of course, she should have used the Italian expression “al fresco”, for outdoors, not the one for cooking pasta “to the tooth”.

Please read your script a bit more slowly and clearly, until you “grow out” of this super-rapid speech.

I don’t know the etymology of -oid, but in geology we use this as a suffix to indicate like, or similar to something else. For example, the most common rock-forming mineral group, the feldspars, have a defined structure, properties and chemistry, but minerals like it but lacking the same chemistry, are called feldspathoids, or just foids for short. I’ll have to research the etymology of -oid, but that for such unusual suffixes can be hard to find.

I just learned clew a few weeks ago, but a few days ago, I couldn’t remember it, thanks for the refresher. I wanted to search for a clew, not a ball, of twine. It gets harder to remember new words in one’s 60s, as I am! I usually need a reminder, or to see it in a book or hear someone use it.

I love looking up the etymology of words, it’s fascinating. I also learn a lot about various European IE-origin languages this way. With a few basic, irregular, verbs like To Be, along with the pronouns and the many cognates, one can often understand quite a bit in other IE languages, e.g. clear, claire, claro. It’s even easier in the science vocabulary of my profession: granite/granita, diorite/diorita, etc. Learning some Latin really helps a lot. I love your correct Latin pronunciation of Vacca, I hardly ever hear decent Latin in Audible books, YT videos, or anywhere else.❤

Thanks again for sharing

In a Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs uses the word for Elmer "he's a regular Nimrod" "What a maroon" for moron.

Commodore Matthew Perry?? Anyone else picture Chandler from Friends?

I love erymology. Learned when I was little and in looking up a meaning in the dictionary . Which just lead to the pronuncistion, derivation and all the neighbouring words. Plus those with circular definitions. Sooo frustrating.

Robot, though Czech in origin, is like the Russian word работо, which means work. Robot = a machine which does work.

if what you say is true, then why does ROB-OT-YA means SLAVE-OF-GOD in Macedonian?

14:50 Bugs and Daffy weren't wrong...lol

Speak EXTREMELY rapid BUT I’m listening, had to pause rewind n play 27,098x’s so that i can overstand fully 😂whew😢

"...her experiences abroad--" For just an instant it sounded like "...her experience as a broad--"

check mate from persian avestan shah mat means king gives uo/surrender

Canary derives its name from Tamazight, also known as Berber, the language of the indigenous people of North Africa. The Guanch, who are also Amazigh( Berbers), are the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Canary is a variation of the Amazigh word Aknary, which means prickly pear. If you’ve ever been to the Islands, there are prickly pears everywhere, hence the name.

Thank you for all these interesting insights

distastrophe- disaster + catastrophe. A catastrophic disaster, the kind that is world altering like Katrina.

"Click, Clack, Moo" by Cronin/Lewin is my recommendation for cow-with-typewriter fiction.