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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 3d

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 3d

There's a number of words for "paper" that both a) are hard to trace to a clear ancestor and b) sound roughly similar. Wanderwort?

Phoenician 𐤇𐤓𐤈𐤉𐤕 <ḥrṭyt>
Greek χάρτης <khártēs>
Sogdian 𐼸𐼰𐼲𐼹𐼰 <kāγaδā>
Old Chinese 紙 <*k.teʔ>
Vietic <*k-cajʔ>

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 3d

ἀποθήκη breaks down as "away-put-ness" and is approximately equivalent to English "off-do-y" 😁

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 5d

Nice. I should definitely get both of those added. Especially the wanderwort!

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 5d

Another very strange double-double 😄

"mile" and "chiroptera" both from PIE roots *ǵʰes- + *peth₂-. Ish.

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · Mar 21

In a separate fun story, the Old Medean military title *hazārapatiš: "commander of a thousand" was both borrowed into Greek as ἀζαραπατεῖς <azarapateîs>/ἀζαβαρίτης <azabarítēs> and also calqued as χιλίαρχος <khilíarkhos>.

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

In each Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic the word for "thousand" is derived from Proto-Indo-European <*ǵʰéslo->—apparently "handful"?—but in different forms.

Greek χίλιοι <khílioi> ("kilo-") seems to derive from <*ǵʰesliyoy>, which may is probably a plural adjective form?

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

New word family: milli-, kilo-, millennial, chrono-, yard, surgery, garter, Midgard
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · Mar 21

In a separate fun story, the Old Medean military title *hazārapatiš: "commander of a thousand" was both borrowed into Greek as ἀζαραπατεῖς <azarapateîs>/ἀζαβαρίτης <azabarítēs> and also calqued as χιλίαρχος <khilíarkhos>.

Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

Italic also uses the <*sm̥->, but makes the whole thing feminine-collective as <*smih₂-ǵʰéslih₂>, whence Latin "mille"

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

In Indo-Iranian it's prefixed with <*sem-> as <*sm̥-ǵʰéslom>, which could be translated as "one handful", but I think perhaps better rendered here as "a whole handful". This becomes forms like Sanskrit <sahásram> and Persian <hazāra>.

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

In each Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic the word for "thousand" is derived from Proto-Indo-European <*ǵʰéslo->—apparently "handful"?—but in different forms.

Greek χίλιοι <khílioi> ("kilo-") seems to derive from <*ǵʰesliyoy>, which may is probably a plural adjective form?

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

(I swear I forgot that "Chronos" is in this family when I picked it 😆)

Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 13d

Still an hour till the Hades 2 full release. Killing some time (😉) by reposting my old Hades etymology thread which is not on bsky
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11d

New word family: milli-, kilo-, millennial, chrono-, yard, surgery, garter, Midgard
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, interesting. The intersection of religion and the French Revolution came up for me researching other things recently, and I didn't know much about it. Does the book cover Jansenism?

Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth,
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O goddess, O queen of those below, I beseech you
to banish the soul's frenzy to the ends of the earth,
show to the initiates a kindly and holy face.

Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 13d

Still an hour till the Hades 2 full release. Killing some time (😉) by reposting my old Hades etymology thread which is not on bsky
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Ambrosia
"Not-mortal". Exactly equivalent to Sanskrit <amrta>, and almost exactly to Latin immortalis.

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Nectar
"Beyond death", connected to necro- and trans-.
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Diamond
Diamond is another form of the same word as Adamant, meaning "incoquerable", or rather "untamable".

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-demh₂-os: "not-tamed" becoming adamos in Greek and *untamaz in Germanic. Though Adamant may be a modification to fit a folk etymology of a borrowing from Akkadian.

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Daedalus Hammer
Daedalus: "craftsman", from daidállō "I do fine work, I embellish"

Hammer: from *h₂éḱmō "stone, rock"
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Pom(egranate)
Latin pōmum: "fruit, fruit tree", probably borrowed from an unknown substrate language. "Pomegranate" is from pōmum grānātum: "seed-filled fruit".

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Centaur Heart
Κένταυρος <Kéntauros>: "centaur". Obscure origin. Possibly κεντέω <kentéō>: "I prick, I stab, I pierce" + ταῦρος <taûros>: "bull", meaning either "bull-goader" or "bull-slayer".

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Obol
ὀβολός <obolós>: a small coin used in Athens. The name means "nail" or "spit"; the currency was originally small metal rods. Possibly related to <bélos>: "arrow, dart" (from *gʷelH-: "to throw, to pierce, to hit with a throw"), but more likely Pre-Greek.

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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 12d

Lucifer
Light-carrier, Light-bringer.

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