Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down12
arrow-up1227arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square218fedilink
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoSame 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-up5·1 month agoI’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-up3·1 month agoInteresting. 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.