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Word You Wouldn't Think Were Etymologically Related: Part 18

Tame and danger both originate from the PIE root *demh₂-, meaning to tame.

Tame comes from the Middle English tome or tame, from the Old English tam or tom, of the same meaning. Tam/tom was derived from the Proto-West Germanic * tam, from the Proto-Germanic *tamaz, meaning brought into the home, from the PIE *demh₂-.

Danger comes from the Middle English daunger, which meant peril but also power or dominion, itself from the Anglo-Norman dangier, a loanword from Old French. Dangier came from the Vulgar Latin *dom(i)narium, from the Latin dominium meaning ownership. Dominium ultimately was derived from the PIE root *demh₂-.

* indicates a reconstructed word

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Root Word of the Week: Part 68

The Latin root pan, meaning bread, can be found in:

company (a business, being with others)

pantry (a room in which food is kept)

companion (a person you spend a lot of time with, something intended to go alongside another thing)

pannier (a basket, usually one of a pair on an animal carrying goods)

Company and companion are both derived from the French compaignon, which comes from the Latin com (with) and pan, as it originally meant one who breaks bread with another.

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My frustration with the whole greater discussion is that Cpunk is not the origin of reclaiming the word Cripple and there’s a lot of decades-old disability work being completely ignored. Part of it is that this older activism is poorly documented, but I think there’s also a generational gap involved. Lots of this started in the 1960s!

On this page: Why the Use of the Term “Crip”? What’s Crip Theory? Crip Justice Why the Use of the Term “Crip”? The inclusion of the term Cri

If Judy Heumann, the one of the core people responsible for the Disability Rights Movement says disability includes Depression and Anxiety, and they need to speak about their experiences and have pride in who they are, I’m gonna listen to her.

Robert McRuer wrote Crip Theory in 2006 about Queerness and Disability, and discusses the word Crip here and its history going back decades, and how while it was originally about mobility it’s been changes in the past few decades to be about disability as a whole.

Scholar Sees Advantage in a "Crip" Vantage

People can better understand global issues, such as neoliberalism and austerity, if they use the vantage of persons with disabilities, said

Crip Theory by Robert McRuer — Olivia A. Wood

This is a book that I had a general sense of already from how people I know talk about its concepts— crip time, cripping composition, etc. f

If your only context to the conversation is from tumblr, I can see why you get protective about the word, but you gotta look at the history and how it’s used in disability studies.

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Firefox won’t let me see the YouTube videos, or even know which ones they are. But I know these other links are worth spreading.

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in order, the YouTube videos are:

Netflix - Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution - Full Feature

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah - Judith Heumann - Defying Obstacles in

CP-assistenten - Robert McRuer on Crips

CP-assistenten - Robert McRuer on Crip Theory

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@alexseanchai​: Thanks!

I’ve got some watching to do!

I like that “Cripple” is becoming an umbrella term for disability pride, in the same way that “queer” is an umbrella pride term for the QUILTBAG.

But I have personal gratification that the two root words from the Anglo-Saxon also ‘just happen’ to describe the main diagnostic symptoms of C.P.: contracted – i.e. spastic – limbs, and crawling on the ground (Babies with C.P. typically don’t ‘graduate’ from belly crawling to hands-and-knees crawling on their own). For one thing, it proves “we” have been around long before a physician decided to write our symptoms down, and for another, “Cripple” has C and P inside it. And I love me some word play like that.

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Tags from @librarychair:

#I dunno if I’ll ever feel personally comfortable claiming it but yeah

I’m not comfortable using it for myself, yet, mostly because it makes other people so uncomfortable, and I don’t want to pause the conversation to relay an entire etymology sidebar.

But one thing I am actively making an effort at is never using “Crippled” or “Crippling” to refer to inanimate or abstract things (as in: “The worldwide shipping crisis is ‘crippling’ the economy.

I think the word’s become so dehumanizing because  we started using it to describe not-human things.

#Disability is a many layered and nuanced thing

Indeed.

#I’m definitely *kind of* disabled but in like very specific semi-visible ways

For what it’s worth, I think “Disabled” is like “Pregnant”… It doesn’t fit a qualifier like “kind of.”

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Words You Wouldn't Think Were Etymologically Related: Part 18

Feminism, fawn and fetus both come from the PIE root *dʰeh₁(y)-, meaning to nurse or suckle.

Feminism comes from the French feminisme, from the Latin femina, meaning woman. Femina was derived from the Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from a PIE root meaning ‘the one breastfeeding’, from *dʰeh₁(y)-.

Fetus is a loanword from Latin, which meant childbirth, pregnancy or offspring, itself from *dʰeh₁(y)-.

Fawn comes from the Old French feon of the same meaning, from the Vulgar Latin feonem, which itself came from the Latin fetus, in the sense of offspring or young.

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Associate Versus Connection as a Noun

When used as an English noun, associate is a person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner, while connection is the act of connecting. Used as a noun, associate may be used as somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. In comparison connection is the point at which two or more things are connected. As a noun, associate means a companion; a comrade, while connection means a feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. Associate is understood as one that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. In comparison connection is an established communications or transportation link. Associate is a member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges, while connection is a transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service. Associate means one of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit), but connection means a kinship relationship between people.

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