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Linguist Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

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I'm linguist Gareth Roberts let's answer

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your questions from the internet about

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the history of English words this is

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atmology

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support shc G asks is anyone else that's

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fascinated by atmology the origin of

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words and the soral development of its

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meaning is me or am I just a sad old man

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how very dare you if you are it's not

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because of loving atmology it's a kind

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of offshoot of hisorical linguistics a

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study of language over time how it

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changes and it's really fascinating

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because it lets us lift up the lid of

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the simple words we use take the word

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gossip a godb was originally someone who

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had a s godfa or godmother relationship

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with you they were related to you by

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those means they would be people you

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might confide in you might share social

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personal information in and so from

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there we get the word gossip as a person

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who shares gossip from there we get the

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verb gossip and this would have been in

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the Old English period that God and S

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would have come together to form the

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word gossip lunaris says dude and bro a

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gender neutral terms thoughts this is

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actually quite common words becoming

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less or more gender neutral so we can

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think of the word bro bro comes from

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brother but then maybe they use it in a

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way that just includes friends maybe a

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woman uses it to refer to a female

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friend and suddenly it doesn't have that

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gendering anymore sometimes the same

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thing happens in Reverse in Old English

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the word man was a general word for

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people the word for man as a male was

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where where really only survives in

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English in the word werewolf man has

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taken its place because this was a

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society where men were the default

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people and if you refer to a default

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person they tended to be male man ended

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up being associated in particular with

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males the Old English word for man is

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also related to the word world the word

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world in protog Germanic comes from

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meaning man and word Al meaning age age

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of man this gives us some insight into

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how Germanic spechers saw themselves in

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their Universe there's another word in

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this area which has an interesting

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history that's the word guy so guy

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actually comes with the name of guy

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Forks who was captured in the Gunpowder

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Plot and executed horribly and every

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year after that in Britain people

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celebrated catching and killing him by

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burning effes of him on a big bonfire

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and these effes were known as guys kids

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would go around asking for a penny for

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the guy people sometimes started using

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this to refer to someone who was

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disheveled a sort grotesque looking

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human a sort of insulting term for a man

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might call him a guy and in America

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interestingly around the same kind of

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period you get examples of people using

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the word just to refer to man

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generically lifted and gifted zero asks

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who the came up with a silent letter

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English spelling is weird take the word

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uh Knight or no Once Upon a Time people

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genuinely did pronounce the k at the

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start of Knight they'd say k or they

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would pronounce a g at the start of no

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they'd say gor over time in English

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these things change people stop

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pronouncing those but we didn't update

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the spelling we actually did used to say

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Walder and shoulder the ancestors of

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would and should we stopped pronouncing

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those L's but we kept the L's in but

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could never actually had the L in the

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first place we just added that L because

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we wanted to make it match up with w and

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should and we find this kind of thing

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also happening quite a lot with words

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that have been borrowed into the

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language there was no B in the word

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doubt either in English or in French but

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the word came ultimately from the Latin

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word duare which has a b so at some

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point in the Middle Ages both French and

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English strive society that perhaps we

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should put the B back in genivi someone

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just used the word unived on BBC news

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the news and my dad turned to me was

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like I didn't know that was a word this

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is one of those places where you have an

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effective taboos you have a taboo which

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is actually if like implemented by

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social media and so we end up trying to

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skirt around the words we're not meant

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to use and come up with words like un

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alived and this happens quite a lot we

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think for instance that uh the reason

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the English word bear isn't cinate with

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the word for bear in Latin or Welsh or

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Greek is that people didn't want to

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refer to Bears because it felt to them

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perhaps as if they might invoke the

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horror of this big scary creature in

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using the word so you'd expect Modern

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English word for Bear to be cordinate

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with the French word which comes from

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this Proto European word pronounced

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Something Like H instead bear seems to

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trace back to be in prot European

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meaning Brown this is not the only

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Theory there are some other theories

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about where the Modern English word be

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comes from but we know for sure it does

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