Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 个月前What's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square217fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down12
arrow-up1227arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 3 个月前message-square217fedilink
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 个月前Same I’m Swedish, “bokstav”. Beech staff. Funny enough, bok also means book. Maybe the etymology for book comes from that. Or vice versa.
minus-squareHenriVolney@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 个月前I’m pretty sure book comes from the French world bouc, which refers to goat skin, which was used to make books in the Middle Ages
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 个月前Interesting. Maybe it’s still related somehow if two different things were used to make the same item they somehow were named the same thing.
Same I’m Swedish, “bokstav”. Beech staff. Funny enough, bok also means book. Maybe the etymology for book comes from that. Or vice versa.
I’m pretty sure book comes from the French world bouc, which refers to goat skin, which was used to make books in the Middle Ages
Interesting. Maybe it’s still related somehow if two different things were used to make the same item they somehow were named the same thing.