@thegrammardiva.bsky.socialIllyngophobia - The fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down. From the ancient Greek il-lynx / illyngx (ίλλυγξ), "vertigo," "dizziness," or a "whirling sensation" and phobia (φοβία), meaning "fear," "panic," or "terror." #grammar #grammardiva #wordoftheday #etymology
@btuftin.social.coop.ap.brid.gyI have a hypothesis that the Norwegian word "trulte" for a short and rotund girl, almost certainly from "trulte" meaning 'roll' (v.), shares a root with English "trend" and "trundle". My very superficial investigation neither proved nor disproved this.
#etymology
@andrewcgrant.bsky.social"Lewd" didn't always mean "dirty". It used to mean "uneducated".
From "not part of the church" to "obscene", I guess "lewd" was always ungodly.
@sohkamyung.bsky.social"A surprising number of flowers are named for people:
- begonia: after Michel Bégon, a former governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti)
- camellia: after Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel
- dahlia: after Anders Dahl, a student of Carl Linnaeus
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@brianallenmusician.bsky.socialThe words grenadine and grenade are both related to the word pomegranate.
Two people were eating pomegranates at some point--
#1 said "What if we made a liquid that tasted like this?"
#2 said, "What if we made this out of metal and explosives and used it to kill people?"
#etymology
@avensarah.bsky.socialThe surprisingly connected origins of "bank" and "bench". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #bank #riverbank #bench
@alliterative.bsky.socialThe surprisingly connected origins of "bank" and "bench". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #bank #riverbank #bench
Annie's Origin of Words or Phrases
"Break the Ice"
#etymology, #wordorigins, #linguistics, #languagehistory, #wordnerd
@thegrammardiva.bsky.socialHeliophobia- Entered modern usage as a psychological descriptor around the late 19th century to define an abnormal or irrational dread of sunlight or bright light. From the Greek hēlios, meaning "sun" and phobia meaning "fear." #grammar #grammardiva #etymology #phobia #wordoftheday
@wordorigins.bsky.socialWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
@kentarchsoc.bsky.socialIt’s #WordWednesday! 📖
Today’s Kentish word is Gratten (grat-un), meaning stubble or a stubble field—also known as ersh, eddish, grotten or podder-gratten.
From A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect (1888).
@andrewcgrant.bsky.social"Villain" wasn't an evil person until the aristocracy got involved.
It's just another example of the rich looking down on the poor. It's class warfare encoded in language.
@lusolobo.bsky.socialEven after historic trade routes disappear, words remain www.lusolobo.com/words #history #origin #etymology #trade #colonisation #language #WomensScript @visitportugal.com
@4islesandco.bsky.social--- existing in the real world
borrowed from Medieval Latin 'objectīvus', meaning considered in relation to its purpose or relating to an object of thought, this stems from 'objectum', meaning something presented to the mind, goal, aim
@wordsandmagpies.bsky.socialwordsgetaround.substack.com/p/white-whea... This week's substack looks at wheat, barley, Theresa May, Sting and shoe sizes! #etymology #wheat #barley #appliedlinguistics
@darlingaxe.comForest: From Latin forestis (“outside”).
@newsen.bsky.socialExploring the Etymological Roots of Wilk Family Names in New Book #United_States #Charleston #WILKINSON #Etymology #Family_Names
@justinhillauthor.bsky.social
@flufffighter.bsky.social