Flying Squid to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoGet a rope.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1667file-text
arrow-up1667imageGet a rope.lemmy.worldFlying Squid to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square96fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNougatlinkfedilink2•3 months agoI’m going to go with Kevin Stroud of The History of the English Language Podcast on that one.
minus-square@scrion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoI can’t tell if you are implying any disagreement, so I’ll just add that the Proto-Germanic origin for the second half of lady (hlǽfdige) definitely stems from kneading: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/daigijǭ Other than that, sounds like an interesting podcast!
I’m going to go with Kevin Stroud of The History of the English Language Podcast on that one.
I can’t tell if you are implying any disagreement, so I’ll just add that the Proto-Germanic origin for the second half of lady (hlǽfdige) definitely stems from kneading: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/daigijǭ
Other than that, sounds like an interesting podcast!
It’s fantastic, I just re-listened to the whole thing.