Etymology – For fans of word and phrase origins to learn and share interesting findings

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• breakfastmtn@geddit.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘sign at the bottom of a document’): from Latin subscribere, from sub- ‘under’ + scribere ‘write’.

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  • Chromebby@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Awesome!😁

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• ThreeHalflings@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Love it. I’d never have thought to look for it, but I’m glad I stumbled across this post!

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  • Chromebby@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yay! I started a community over on Squabbles for a bit, and it was another mod and I primarily posting content. Unfortunately they went MIA, so I’ve been bummed out about that lol. Tried to find an etymology community on Lemmy, so I joined the Kbin one, after which I realized it was a bit dead and there was no one running it. So here we are. :)

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• twistypencil@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is the etymology of etymology?

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  • Chromebby@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From Greek etumos “true, real” + -logia “study of” 🤗

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• ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I look forward to talking about insects!

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  • Chromebby@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Etymology is for word origins😊 But if you like bugs, you’re looking for entomology! There seems to be a cool community over here: !entomology@mander.xyz

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    • ttmrichter@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      (It was a joke. The mandatory one whenever an etymology group is set up.)

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• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you do the eff word, first? Just demystify that bad boy real quick.

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  • Koto@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This video might come close piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=FvPbxZmZxZ8

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• downpunxx@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Navajo, yatahey is widely used as a greeting because it is derived from the Hebrew language yaahey /yah-ah-teh/.In real life, it literally means “all is good.”.

  https://www.indiancountryextension.org/what-does-yatahey-mean-in-navajo#:~:text=In%20Navajo%2C%20yatahey%20is%20widely%20used%20as%20a,real%20life%2C%20it%20literally%20means%20%E2%80%9Call%20is%20good.%E2%80%9D.

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• krayj@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is the new community for sharing knowledge only, or is it also a place to ask questions (ie: “What is the etymology of [xyz]?”)?

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  • Chromebby@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say for sharing etymology findings. Maybe there could be question posts once there are enough knowledgable subscribers to answer them. :)

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