@Cimorene "Does three etymology enthusiasts count as a crowd?" Two's company three's a crowd;-) take it literally, blow the idiom away...... So now that three's a crowd, don't say more's chaos!!!
I got to finish just a last bit of my work, before am ready for the weekend tomorrow! Catch ya guys later! : )
Start sharing the words and their origins already! Thanks for the interests everybody, looking forward to share / learn / discuss. Oh is this thread okay? Jey do you mind? New thread is cool too! Whatever works for y'all!
#etymology I looked up the Spanish equivalent of 'Insomnia' and found... Sueño (Spanish for “dream”) and insomnia come from the same root: the Latin somnus, meaning, “sleep". The -mn- sound in Latin is usually transformed into the ñ in Spanish, for example : damn and daño, or autumn and otoño. So the s-mn of insomnia maps to the s-ñ of, sueño.
Dear K Let me state what is perhaps obvious - Somnus in turn derives from the proto Indo-European 'Swepnos' - a cognate* of which is the Sanskrit 'Swapna' What a familiar word 'Insomnia' is! *cognates = words with common etymological origin
As I was adding the footnote about cognates with a *, I looked up the word 'asterisk'. It means 'small star' and the root word is the Greek 'astron'/'aster' (star). So many compound words based on it like astrology, disaster, etc. Indian cognate - tara. And do you like the star shaped Aster flowers?
same to same feeling..tip of my tongue...but can't remember will call mom "by- heart karlo" meaning: aik dam ratta karlo....but opposite of "by heart"....tip of my tongue still
'Cognate' got me curious! But I sleep typed it as 'Cognac' and ended up knowing the origin of 'brandy'! Modest crowd? Is brandy okay to be shared amongst us? Why do we call it brandy? "Brandy is basically distilled wine that usually is aged in oak barrels. In the 17th century the Dutch word for burning or distilling was "branden" and the word for wine was "wijn." So what was the Dutch word for "burned wine?" "Brandewijn." And how would you say that in English? Brandywine! "