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#ETYMOLOGY
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#Greece #Greek #LanguageLearning #WordOfTheDay #Etymology #Linguistics #Idiomas
What's something that you did with Meraki recently?
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Before radio, "broadcasting" was a farming term! 🚜
It meant scattering seeds widely by hand. 🧺 In the 1920s, engineers "borrowed" the word to describe sending radio signals in all directions instead of point-to-point. 📡
#ScienceTrivia #MediaHistory #Etymology
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f*ck!!
"orior" in Latin means "to rise" -->
the sun rises in the east -->
whence "oriental" to describe the land/people/culture lying east of europe
I'm sure #etymology nerds would be all over me for how obvious this is but I never knew that.
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Happy Wordfoolery Day! Here are the definitions and roots of the words, as promised. Which is your favourite? #etymology 🧵
Bombologist - one who studies bumble bees. From bombus, the Greek word for buzzing.
Fufflement - wearing too many layers of clothes. Yorkshire dialect.
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The surprisingly connected origins of "good", "gather", and "fondue".
#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #good #god #gather #GoodFriday #fondue #giddy
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Some things stay, even after they’ve gone.
Redolent - carrying the trace of something beyond itself.
A word for what stays in the air; for a flavour, a memory half-sensed; for what quietly conjures.
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#words #language #etymology
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A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888), pg 4
You can search the dictionary yourself here - www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/dic...
#research #Kentish #dictionarycorner #historical #WordWednesday #etymology #dialects #localdialect
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Historically this appears to be the first time that #drought is mentioned #OED #etymology
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🌸 Buds open and daylight lengthens as April arrives. Its name may come from aperire (“to open”), evoking spring’s unfolding, or from Greek Aphrodite, through the Etruscan Apru, reflecting cultural exchange between Greece and Rome.
✍️ Explore: tpc8.short.gy/4MSuegeO
#April #History #Etymology #TPC8
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What an excellent thought and question -
Can anyone confirm some definitions/ etymology
I believe there is:
Vernalagnia - Spring fever (slightly mocking?)
Vernorexia - mood or love brought on by Spring/ social media trend?
Verbal - relating to spring 'a vernal mood / joy'
#words #etymology
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#Mexico #Polyglot #WordOfTheDay #Etymology
Is there a word equivalent to this in your native language?
Tell me 🙌
Cuántos de ustedes usan esta palabra a diario?
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A sleepy ted tucked up in a bed. This bear is called Snowbear and wears a dashing striped scarf, even for his naps.
Last Day of Female Words for #WomensHistoryMonth - dreamscape. #celebratingwomen #etymology 🧵
A dreamscape is the landscape of our dreams. It's a variant of landscape and dates to 1858. It was coined by American poet & novelist Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) in her 1958 poem, “The Ghost’s Leavetaking.”
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Do you think April Fools Day is bollocks? Well, you're right, etymologically speaking! Fool comes from Latin follis “bellows, inflated ball”, since a fool is a kind of puffed up person (think windbag). Follis in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- “blow, swell” which has a number of derivatives referring to, um, male swelling, hence bollocks from Old English beallucas “testicles”.
The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is FOOL/BOLLOCKS #wotd #fool #bollocks #AprilFoolsDay
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“Tequila” comes from the town of Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico. The place name derives from the Nahuatl word tequillan, likely meaning “place of tribute/work.”
#etymology
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A romantic rubber ducky - pink with love heart pattern
Day 30 of Female Words for #WomensHistoryMonth -psychology. This word is one the Greeks Gave Us and has surprisingly romantic roots, even with a link to a famous fairy tale. Read all about it on this week's blog.
wordfoolery.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/t... #etymology #celebratingwomen
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Wordle 1,745 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩From Greek, via Latin and French into English. A sign of foreboading.
#etymology
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FUN FACT: Originally, the -ster ending on a name denoted a female. Thus, a Webster was a female webber (weaver). Other names that follow this: Brewster (brewer), Baxter (baker), Spinster (spinner). #surnames #onomastics #names #nameorigins #etymology
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Spotted a piebald deer in my northern Bergen county town this afternoon. A first for us! Not an albino--mostly white but definitely had some dark coloration around the head, neck, and ears. #NJ
www.etymonline.com/word/piebald #etymology
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Psychopomp: From the Greek psuchopompos, literally "conductor of souls." Whether Hermes, Anubis, or a personal guide, the Psychopomp represents the bridge between the material and the immaterial, the necessary mediator of the Great Transition.
#DrBeyond #Metaphysics #Etymology #Occult #Psychopomp
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Day 29 of Female Words for #WomensHistoryMonth - xanthippe.
This word, with us since the late 1500s, is defined as “an ill-tempered woman” but I think it’s open to debate. #etymology 🧵 #celebratingwomen
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Hey word lovers! This is a very cool retro audio cassette set of Word Power Vocabulary Builder. Perfect for logophiles! etsy.me/2yScL7P #etsy #vintagetapes #etymology #words #English #increaseyourvocabulary #teacher #reading #retrotech #booktok #cassettetapes
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You know that moment when you forget someone’s name mid-introduction?
There’s a word for that.
Tartle.
#words #etymology #language
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Day 28 of Female Words for #WomensHistoryMonth - nemesis. Nemesis was the Greek goddess of vengeance and retribution. She punished human arrogance, known as hubris. #etymology 🧵
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Balagan Junk-room depository for Persian genius: Makeshift upper-floor, Bala-khaneh, Attic ransacked by Seljuk, Timur, or Golden Horde - for Prestige speech, for Thought cachet. Conveyed to Kyiv and Medieval Muscovy as Cluttered litter-chattel, Bordel, or moveable booth at Circus and market, it Shifts there from Ramshackle cubicle into Metaphorical disorder; Settles into Slavic and Yiddish as pandemonium, Bedlam, fiasco - Balagan. Dirty, dismal Chazer Shtal* of Despot, pogrom, commissar - Blight-pest, death-squad Einsatzgruppe - Babi Yar. Dirt and disarray of Hekdesh – Sacred space lent to Pilgrim, pauper or wayfarer, Left in distress at their Departure. Whither the Balagan? That Slapdash, Vagabond stage play; that Puppet-show, freakshow Wagon-cage. Fairground Diabolade, Unruly tabernacle - Chaos churned amid Muffled Sootfalls on the Sabbath. ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026 *Pigsty (Yiddish)
The Text Version of "Balagan"
@coastalpoet.bsky.social #PoemsAloud
Thanks @wildfirewords.bsky.social who published this in the OS9 Anthology
#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
#Balagan #Persian #Slavic #Yiddish #etymology #SpokenWord #Carnivalesque
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#Poets #poetrycommunity, a great new initiative by @coastalpoet.bsky.social - #PoemsAloud
Thanks @wildfirewords.bsky.social who published this in the OS9 Anthology
#poem: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2026
#Balagan #Persian #Slavic #Yiddish #etymology #SpokenWord #Carnivalesque
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Hard Times book title page with illustration showing crowd of people in front of multi-storied housing By Charles Dickens Folio Society edition
While reading Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the word “confab” seemed like a too-modern colloquialism. I looked up the #etymology and, indeed, it’s been in usage since the 1700s. 🤷♀️
📚💙 #NowReading
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