Etymology treasure house (14)

1 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 20:12

In honour of Johan Goropius Becanus, the 1519 born Dutch physician who retraced the origin of all languages back to the Belgian language. (Originally, everybody in the world was building the tower of Babel, except for a certain Jafet. When god confused the builders of the tower, they all started talking different languages, except for Jafet, who continuead to speak the normal, original language of the world, and his offspring eventually went to live in Belgium.)

Here, we retrace the roots of english words back to their real sources, and reconstruct their original meaning and context as well.

2 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 20:21

Etymology: eto...

3 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 21:31

Labour: from lay borede: Old pre-societal dialects: Before Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden of Eden, childbirth was not painful but merely long and not very exciting. Hence to lay, bored. After the eviction, the term was kept to refer to childbirth but by and by became used also for the act of working, which in meaning shared the boredom and pain. The term was eventually used to describe archetypical members of the proletariat.

4 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 21:38

Curtain: from cursed tent!: Old english: Before the invention of curtains it was customary for people to peek on young and sexy couples making sweet love through their windows. At some point, probably as early as 1000 BC, prudish people erected a tent within their building to prevent being seen. Disappointed onlookers would exclaim "Oh, the cursed tent!" The term was quickly adopted for the tent, and after poor prudish people reduced the tent to patches of cloth in front of their windows, these were also referred to as cursed tents

5 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 22:00

Vagina: from Valle (valley) de Regina (queen):Adopted from French: The well known French fertility cults regarded the vagina as a holy and majestic place, which is reflected in [valley], which is typically used to refer to a spiritual haven of nature, and [queen], the highest female member of royalty. The French rural slur contracted valle-de-regina into vagina. ('re' from regina usually remains in such contraction. presumably, Regina was first replaced by the less imposing shortform of the name, being Gina) The term was probably adopted into English through sailors always in need for more vocabulary regarding female genitals.

The stem valle-de-regina in its less contracted form is thought to be the root for the word 'virgin,' with the inbetween form of 'varegana' as documents from a long extinct French tribe attest. Admittedly, the meaning is narrower than that of vagina, but it should be noted that the fertility cults of the ancient French demanded that the queen be virginal until coitus with the king. Breach of this demand would destroy any woman's chance of becoming royalty. This essential point, linked with the inherent meaning of vagina, but with the stress on queen (regina) lead to stressing the 're' in valle-de-regina which in the end became the modern virgin.

6 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 22:10

Shit-
Certain types of manure used to be transported (as everything was back then) by ship. In dry form it weighs a lot less, but once water (at sea) hit it. It not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas.

As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen; methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern. BOOOOM!

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was discovered what was happening.

After that, the bundles of manure where always stamped with the term "S.H.I.T" on them which meant to the sailors to "Ship High In Transit." In other words, high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

7 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5066 23:28

OK
The historical record shows that O.K. appeared as an abbreviation for "oll korrect" (a conscious misspelling of "all correct") in Boston newspapers in 1839, and was reinterpreted as "Old Kinderhook" in the 1840 United States presidential election. Because it is a recent word born of word play, and because it is so widely used, O.K. has also invited many folk etymologies. These competing theories are not supported by the historical written record, except in that folk and joke etymologies influenced the true history of the word.

8 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 12:36

>>2

> eto

tha i no a englis wor wh di yo sa i

9 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 15:59

stereo: from 'steady eared, yo': The early soundsystems could only create mono sounds. Audiophiles soon discovered that the experience of listening improved by quickly spinning ones head, so that both ears could listen equally well to the source of sound. Not surprisingly this was only common among the more extreme enjoyers of music. The advent of sound coming from two sources eliminated the need to shake ones head, which for audiophiles was great news since this technique was indeed very tiring. Therefore the two-source soundsystem was called steady-eared. The 'yo' is thought to derive from the futile attempts of audiophile nerds (i.e. most of them) to adopt a gangsta image. As such they would refer to double-source soundsystems as "its steady eared, yo!" The editor Robert Dumondt of the widely read audiophile magazine 'Audiophilez Monthly' used this term but did not know the spelling. Also he was a bit deaf, and hence spelled it phonetically as the modern word, 'stereo.'

10 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5067 16:17

Dildo
The word "dildo" originally referred to the phallus-shaped peg used to lock an oar in position on a dory (small boat). It would be inserted into a hole on the side of the boat, and is very similar in shape and function to the modern toy. It is highly likely the toy takes its name from this sailing tool, which also lends its name to the town of Dildo and the nearby Dildo Island in Newfoundland, Canada.
Others suggest the word is a corruption of Italian "diletto" (for "delight").

11 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5069 11:16

Coffee: phonologic combination of cough and 'eew.' During the first crusades, British rogues (who the remaining brits were very happy to get rid off) came into contact with coffee while meddling in the middle east (nothing new there.) Unaware that it should be used with sugar and milk, their not unexpected reaction was to spit out the hot broth, cursing and coughing. The more civilised of the expressions given to the drink 'cough-eww' was coined into 'coffee,' and the stuff was sent back to Europe as a prank, to piss off their relatives. They however, being more culinary advanced than their brutish kinsmen in the ME, enriched coffee with the mandatory sugar and milk and were able to quite enjoy it. The name remained.

12 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5069 16:47

COFFEE

The English word "coffee" first came into use in the early to mid 1600s, but early forms date back to the last decade of the 1500s. The English term stems from the Italian caffè and the French, Portuguese and Spanish café. These words were borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahveh, a derivation of the Arabic qahhwa.

The origin of the Arabic qahwa (قهوة), is uncertain. It is either derived from the name of the Kaffa region in southern Ethiopia, where coffee was cultivated, or by a truncation of qahwat al-būnn, meaning "wine of the bean" in Arabic.

13 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5069 18:52

>>12

>قهوة

That is not and english word why did you say it

14 Name: ⊂二二二( ^ω^)二二二⊃ : 1993-09-5069 23:12

why
O.E. hwi, instr. case (showing for what purp. or by what means) of hwæt (see what), from P.Gmc. *khwi (cf. O.S. hwi, O.N. hvi), from PIE *qwei, locative of *qwo- "who" (cf. Gk. pei "where"). As an interj. of surprise or to call attention to a statement, recorded from 1519.

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