Etymology
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Did you know where the name "Ikorodu Oga" was gotten from? Repost to Educate Someone ✨ https://t.co/fzSsP1Wu6M
This makes more sense for me, breaking it up and getting an alternate etymology of the word ‘Celebrity’ : - a fractured or divided tumor- ... tumors often dispense toxic environmen...
The Origins of [ELON] "MUSK" (Parody BUT Interesting 🧵 on Word Magick) MUSK is a class of aromatic substances used as base notes in perfume. They include glandular secretions fro...
Where does the English Word 'GOD' Originate? The Greek letter G (Gamma) is in the form of a Mason’s Square. The letter 0 (Omicron) is a Circle, and the letter D (Delta) a Triangle...
Do you like etymology? Here’s a fun one: To give is देना in Hindi. Which comes from ददाति in Sanskrit. Since Sanskrit and Persian share the same linguistic family, the equivalent...
A 🧵👇 To Celebrate 1000 Frens Who is the handsome smart poaster known as Sanfedisti? You wud leik 2 no. Instead! I offer a small tale of history, etymology and adventure! What is...
@ammassinz @regularNAME_ @LlastResort @xruiztru It is not "très simple", sorry. There are issues that need to be addressed to make a convincing etymology in a methodical and lingui...
District names of #Karnataka. An #etymology thread. 1. #Bagalkote: From Kannada words BAGILU and KOTE, meaning ‘entrance’ and ‘fort’ respectively. Said to be so named because of t...
The Etymology of 'Yggdrasil' (A Short 🧵) In Stanza 138 of the poem Hávamál, the All-Father Odin says, "I know that I hung on a windy tree nine long nights, wounded with a spear,...
Ive got something fun for you. Did you know that the Italian greeting "ciao" comes from the same etymological root as the word "slav" as in the slavic ethnic group?
When the 'Devil' was a 'G-d'. (A 🧵) The Words 'Demon', 'Devil' & 'G-d' have always been interrelated. As Plato said, "All Learning is Remembering". The Enemy's god always eventua...
The famous Chingiz stone inscription talking of the destruction of marUnmatta-s of the Khwarizm empire. Translation in next twt https://t.co/wTtrDRGH0D
German and English words are usually pretty similar. Maus~mouse, Milch~milk, Wasser~water, sechs~six, Vater~father. But the German word for horse, "Pferd", is nothing like English....
Wikipedia sinkhole: Parupraesanna (Greek: Paropamisadae) a satrapy under #Cyrus and #Darius. Literally means: beyond the Hindu Kush. (Hindu Kush range was called - Uparaesanna). He...
