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#Etymology ‘R’ Us.
Annihilate. From Latin, an- “to bring to-“ nihil “nothing”

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A brief history of NSA backdoors. (2013)
https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/12/index.html
saved 2025-11-29 https://d…

@… Ja tylko piszę, jaka jest etymologia tego święta według historii - jest ono znacznie starsze i głębsze, a tylko każde obecnie możliwe święto zostało spłycone konsumpcjonizmem - jak można na czymś zarobić ,to się zarobi.

Dokładnie to samo się stało z wigilią bożego narodzenia - pradawne święto naszych przodków zostało zastą…

Ethanol plant spills harmful wastewater into Philippine marine reserve https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/ethanol-plant-spills-harmful-wastewater-into-philippine-marine-reserve/

This made me laugh. Reminds me of the time @… added garam masala to the flapjacks instead of ground ginger and it was surprisingly good 😄
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I recently researched the etymology of two interesting German words:
- "nonchalant" (informal, relaxed, casual, carefree, easy-going): I found that interesting because it's obviously a negation and I never read the non-negated form "chalant". Turns out that the non-negated form goes back to latin "calēre" (warm, to be hot, to be alarmed, to be fired up)
- "verschollen" (lost, missing, nothing has been known about the whereabouts of sth. or sb. for a long time). I found it weird because I couldn't make any sense of "schollen". This might be related to "verschallen" (stop making noise) and might go back to old high German "skellan" (which is also related to German "Schelle", a small bell). So, "verschollen" can be seen as a euphemistic expression because stop making noise is used to refer to being lost (and maybe dead).
#etymology #linguistics #German

Odd etymological question: I was interested today in whether the Soviet word for a labour camp, Gulag, was related to the Nazi-era German word for a prisoner of war camp, Stalag. Gulag is apparently a contraction of 'Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й', where the last word transliterates as 'lageréy', while Stalag is a contraction of 'Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschaftsstammlager'. So: what is the root of 'lager', and how does it end up in both Ru…

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So ‘mistletoe’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon words for ‘shit stick’?
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5641015/mistletoe-dung-manure-etymology