Mar 24, 2017
Sassy
actually derived from “sauce” and in the end nothing else but a variant spelling of “saucy” that became independent from its original.
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Sassy
actually derived from “sauce” and in the end nothing else but a variant spelling of “saucy” that became independent from its original.
Rook
much like the name of the game itself - chess - the name of the rook ultimately derives from the Person word “رخ“ (rox), meaning “castle”.
Mathematics
ultimately stemming from the Ancient Greek word “ μανθάνειν” (manthánein) meaning “to learn”.
Apparently all you have to learn is maths.
Walrus
this word is actually wholly unrelated to “walnut”, since it’s a loan, probably from Dutch, consisting of the parts “wal” (whale) and “ros” (horse), which are curiously cognates to their translations.
So next time you see or hear of a walrus, know it’s just a whale-horse.
Walnuts
the second part of the name probably doesn’t need any explaining since we all know what nuts are, but the first part is interesting, since the Wal- refers to the same as the name of the country “Wales”, this is not because walnuts came from Wales, but rather because Germanic people were pretty uncreative in naming foreigners and basically called all Celts and Romans ~”Welsh”.
And since walnuts initially spread around Europe from France and Italy, they were basically just called “foreign nuts”.
Creative, innit?
Whiskey
an anglicisation of Irish “uisce” (water), which is short for “uisce beatha” (water of life), which itself is a translation of Latin “aqua vitae”.
Sounds a bit like a cover-up. “Whatcha drinking?” “Nothing, just water…”
Scot
originally a Roman term for the Irish.
Yes, Scotland was originally named after the Irish, that started settling there in the first millenium AD.
person
derives from the Latin word “persona”, which primarily meant “mask” or “character (in a play)”.
I guess you could draw some deep conclusions about the nature of humanity from that.