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@fustbariclation.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 2:12 PM

If awnings awe you,
awe has overflowed; awe less,
or some apter awe. #senryū

#Poem  #Poetry #μvers #micropoetry #awesome #etymology #unknown

@wordorigins.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 12:58 PM

Grammy

#etymology #wordorigins #language

@thegrammardiva.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 12:15 PM

Trypanophobia - Fear of injections or hypodermic needles. From the Ancient Greek word trp̄́panon (τρῡ́πανον), meaning borer, auger, or trepan (a surgical instrument used to bore a hole into the skull) and phobia, from Ancient Greek phóbos (φόβος), meaning fear. #phobia #wordoftheday #etymology #grammar

@justinhillauthor.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:14 AM

Wordle 1,922 5/6

⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Old English, meaning and spelling pretty much unchanged, though fairly archaic speach now.

#etymology

@andrewcgrant.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 12:33 AM

Ape-ricot or app-ricot? It's both. And I’m not sure how we got here.

"Apricot" circled the Mediterranean, turned P to B and back, and added an Arabic definite article. And yet none of that explains the different pronunciations.

#etymology #linguistics #languagehistory #pronunciation #educational

@hawkiapp.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 6:33 PM

Oooh #Volcanoe! I love em. They scare me but they're SO COOL!

They produce some crazy #minerals and I love how they're named! #iddingsite #olivine #titanomagnetite

#Scientists and their naming systems.. #etymology #binomalnomenclature

🌎📌🌲👉 hawki.app 👈🌳📍🧪

#hawki #magma #geology #spicyrocks #lava

24.921,17.811 The central scoria cone may be only a few thousand years old, possibly even of historical age. The arid climate may mislead as to its actual age, as there is little erosion in the desert. Early geological studies estimated an age of less than 800-1,000 years. Salty muds and rocks erupted by the scoria cone and the crater northwest of the main Waw an Namus caldera must have been emplaced after the last pluvial. (Closest History: Waw an Namus, ~3.00 miles; found via undefined- mile search) Verify on Wikipedia: Waw an Namus Plant a tree by exploring moreComposition Eruptions at Haruj have produced relatively uniform volcanic rocks consisting of olivine basalt [14 that forms a tholeiitic to alkali basalt suite:[8] the alkaline basalts were originally interpreted as hawaiite. 35] Minerals contained within the volcanic rocks include clinopyroxene, olivine, plagioclase, and titanomagnetite, with secondary calcite, iddingsite, serpentine, and zeolite. [43] Based on compositional differences, the volcanic rocks have been subdivided into an older and a younger family. [44] In some places in the northern Haruj a modified basalt has been found, which is dense and whose olivine has been transformed into iddingsite. 15 The lavas contain inclusions of lithic material as well as pyroxene and peridotite lherzolite. 127] Phonolite and trachyte are absent. [35] The magmas ultimately originated at depths of 70 to 74 kilometres (43 to 46 mi)
@thegrammardiva.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 12:12 PM

Sciaphobia, also spelled sciophobia - Fear of shadows. From the Greek words scia (shadow) and phobos (fear). #grammar #grammardiva #etymology #phobia #wordoftheday

@wordfoolery.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 11:44 AM

#ReviewersWanted "Words the Weather Gave Us"
330 words from apricity to zephyr, when weather changed history, folklore, forecasting, trivia.
#etymology #weather #history #bookreviewers
Advance review copies (digital) available now worldwide - chat/comment if you're interested. Thanks! 📚💙

@justinhillauthor.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 7:38 AM

Wordle 1,921 4/6

🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not often we get a back-formation - but this word was originally a 1650s Dutch noun, later in 1680s turned into an English verb.

#etymology

@armavirumque.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 2:52 AM

Lucre: late 14c., from Old French lucre, from Latin lucrum "material gain, advantage, profit; wealth, riches," of uncertain origin. www.etymonline.com/word/lucre #etymology

@benjiturnbull.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:40 PM

#Etymology and #History folks:

Are Old Norse "Austr" and Latin "Auster" coincidence or cognates?

#phdchat #phdvoice #phdlife

@wordfoolery.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 7:42 PM

This week on the Wordfoolery blog I explore the word history of being drenched and I reveal the cover for "Words the Weather Gave Us" - coming in November and available for ebook pre-order now. Hope you like the bright sunny cover?
wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/w... #etymology #Weather ☀️📚🌧️🌪️❄️

@alliterative.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 7:06 PM

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is AUTUMN/FALL #wotd #autumn #fall

There’s often debate about the words autumn and fall, breaking along the lines of North American and British usage, but really there’s no need to abolish one term as inauthentic because etymologically they’re probably related. Autumn came into English in the 14th c. from Old French autumpne or automne, ultimately from Latin autumnus “autumn”. Its further etymology is uncertain with some etymologists giving up and positing that it was borrowed from the extinct language isolate Etruscan, but one plausible derivation is that it is from the compound *au-tomos “harvest” from the Proto-Indo-European roots *au- “off, away” (also the root of words such as negotiate and authentic) + *temə- “to cut” (also the source of words such as contemplate, epitome, and estimate), from the sense “the cutting off, the cutting away”. That root *au-, which had the earlier form *h2ew-, is almost certainly related to another PIE root *apo- “off, away”, which had the earlier form *h2po-, which is the source of words such as of, off, after, as well as the prefixes ab- and apo- which come from Latin and Greek respectively. Another word which comes from this root is abolish from Latin abolere “to destroy, abolish” made up from the prefix ab- + oleo, which either comes from the PIE root *al- (earlier form *h2el-) “to grow, nourish”, thus having the literal sense of “to retard the growth of” or from the root *olə- (earlier form *h3elh1-) “to destroy, fall”, and some etymologists suggest the word fall (from Old English feallan) has a parallel derivation to abolish, which would mean that fall also represents a compound of the roots *apo- + olə- (*h2ph3elh1-).
@wordorigins.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 1:17 PM

Emmy / image orthicon

#etymology #wordorigins #language #television

@wordfoolery.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:09 PM

This week's dusty gem from the Wordfoolery archives is Whiffler which I wrote about in 2017 - a very useful occupation and it reminded me of "The Princess Bride". Enjoy! wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/i... #etymology

@darlingaxe.comSep 20, 2026, 2:07 PM

Animal: From Latin animal (“living being”), from anima (“breath” or “soul”).

#etymology

@sirius2368.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:12 AM

Albion
(And The Giants Of Albion)

#England #Albion #Britain #TheBritishIsles #Culture #History #Etymology #Names #Places #Heritage

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion

@sirius2368.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:12 AM

Albion
(And The Giants Of Albion)

#England #Albion #Britain #TheBritishIsles #Culture #History #Etymology #Names #Places #Heritage

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion

@lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gySep 20, 2026, 12:02 AM

#TIL the Appalachian Mountains are named that because Spanish map makers got confused about where the Apalachee tribe and the mountain range were and it stuck. #etymology #Appalachians #Apalachee https://www.mikegravel.org/how-did-appalachia-get-its-name/

@lingoberry.appSep 19, 2026, 3:27 PM

Every time you visit a museum, you're stepping into a temple.

The word comes from Mouseion — a shrine to the nine Muses. Music, muse, and amuse all trace to them.

Greek mythology is living vocabulary. Panic (Pan), morphine (Morpheus), hermetic (Hermes)... 🌿

#LanguageLearning #Etymology