The Etymology of "Moon" | WORDLORE
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- It's easy to imagine where many things got their names, but what about things so fundamental and everpresent that it seems strange to think they ever had to be named?
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-PIE for moon means measure.
-Germanic elves could refer to noble dead in barrows.
-Elves call the moon the “measure of years”
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“Sunth!” Brilliant.
Fascinating, and extraordinarily eloquent. Hope this picks up.
I love discussions of the etymologies of words. Subscribing for the discussion of the name of the sun.
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-th as a nouning suffix makes so much sense in hindsight. I wonder how it fell off, as I believe many older biblical translations still retain "speaketh" and such which I assume is using the same rule.
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That -eth is a conjugational ending so not quite the same thing, it's the 3rd person singular ending of a verb, like "he breaketh the bow", it's just an archaic version of "breaks", rather than "break" which is the form for all other persons, "i break, you break, we break" etc.
Very interesting!
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Hope you get some success on RUclips. I definitely appreciate your perspective, and these etymological dives are fun. I really like the video on the origin of "Theoden."
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Could sun's sister synthgunt have relation to sunth?
Seems like there's some debate around the etymology of Sinthgunt, (I'd never heard of her!).
Are there any cultures that believed that each day’s sun was a newly born sun after the previous day’s sun had died after sunset, likewise with the moon?
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More fun words:
Bear. -> "brown"
Wolf. -> "Grrr."
Wolf isn't onomatopoeic. It stems from this en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/w%C4%BA%CC%A5k%CA%B7os
Brown one is just one proposed etymology for bear. It may be problematic due to Indo European colour theory not actually having such a word for brown. Other propositions include the beast and the borer.
Hmmm... Was the moon named for measure or was the concept of measuring names for the moon...
What's the song?