Or did both come from something else? Maybe “kid knee” (small and bent) or, more realistically, it’s something borrowed from another language like Latin or French.
Maybe we evolved from kidney beanz…
Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part?
Submitted 2 months ago by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
digger@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
www.etymonline.com/word/kidney
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
To save y’all a click, the organ came first, sometime in the 14th century, as a mix of the words for womb and egg. It wasn’t until the 16th century that we see the first recorded use of kidney bean, so the name of the bean references the shape of the organ.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That’s a pretty solid answer from one perspective. However that still leaves me wondering what the answer would be from an evolutionary perspective. Did early sea creatures already have kidneys?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, the body part
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
so womb egg. Interesting.