Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square217linkfedilinkarrow-up1231arrow-down12
arrow-up1229arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square217linkfedilink
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-22 months agoSame in 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-up5·2 months 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-up3·2 months 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 in 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.