I HAVE To React To This WIRED Linguist

[@metatronacademy]

Link to the original video kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5bcaniphNybetE

[@servantofaeie1569]

The words hound and head are indeed cognate with Latin canis and caput. Yes, hound is ALSO cognate with Hund, both are cognate with canis. Latin, English and German are all 3 relatives.

[@morvil73]

G Haupt head

[@Pot_ofGold]

Instead of saying "unalived" let's go back to saying "give up the ghost"

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

16:10 _... it makes you think of the leaves which are falling ..._ And it contrasts 'spring', the time we kind of jump from the cold dark winter into the warm bright summer. In autumn, we are falling back. In German, fall is 'Herbst' which, as far as I know, refers to harvest.

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

11:43 PIE: *káput -> PGer: *haubudą -> OE: hēafod -> modern English head PIE: *káput -> Latin -> caput PIE: *kunés (genitive case) -> Latin -> canis PIE: *kunés (genitive case) -> PGer: *hundaz -> English: hound

[@riukrobu]

Thank you!

[@Folcon8661]

There is a mistake origin example of a word that I know of: In italian the red color is called rosso. Italian settlers in Brazil nearby a very fertile soil in the São Paulo countryside area, would call reddish color soil as rosso and the Brazilian Portuguese speakers would interpret it as roxa which is feminine of purple in Portuguese language. So now we refer to it as purple soil instead of red soil

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

9:04 I know bro it’s ridiculous. These OF models be on KZbin showcasing and advertising their content and your videos with ancient Roman statues; ancient relics get taken down / demonetized. Absolutely ridiculous. I feel for u bro.

[@LovePikaMusic]

KZbin: gotta censor ancient statues of naked people My country: statue of a naked boy is literally the symbol/mascot for the national tv

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

05:15 _... but we didn't update the spelling._ According to Rob, English scholars even inserted mute consonants which used to not be written in order to point out the origins of a word, like in 'debt'.

[@dees3179]

I find many of the adverts KZbin shows me deeply offensive, but they put them on videos that have had to be sensored for the advertisers to approve. Makes no sense.

[@LovePikaMusic]

I definitely recommend looking more into historical linguistics it's super cool As other have mentioned hound and canis, and head and caput, really are related (this does NOT mean the English ones came from Latin, they just had a common "ancestor" at some point, in this case protoindoeuropean - neither Latin nor English is the "original", they both went through changes, i believe the PIE root for hound is *kwōn- or something like that. German and English are both Germanic languages, which is to say they are more closely related to eachother than to Latin. Grimm's law applies to protogermanic, so all Germanic languages will show it. Of course the German cognate will be more similar to the English one than the Latin (unless the English word itself was loaned from a Romance language). But being cognate with a word from one language does not preclude it from ALSO being cognate with a word in several other languages. Kind of like how being related to your cousins doesn't mean you're not related to your siblings.

[@martukas398]

In Lithuanian, the word for November - lapkritis actually means "leave fall". I believe the Polish name has the same meaning, and there may be a few more neighboring languages that do the same.

[@L4zySh4ky]

Czech as well, but not in Slovak.

[@mimisor66]

So interesting, an old traditional name of the month of November in Romanian is Brumar, from brumă (hoar frost), with October being Brumărel (the little frost month).

[@vsm1456]

yes, Wikipedia lists at least 8 slavic languages where either October or November are called "leave fall"

[@MarceloSeravalli]

I read the title as "weird" linguist

[@wurstkocher842]

same, I was waiting the entire time for him to say something unhinged

[@doriannab]

I only realized it wasn't "weird" because of your comment

[@urusledge]

The intentional dropping of rhotic r’s is one of the most frustrating things to me. Such a unique and ancient sound to just be tossed by a handful of elites… such a terrible loss.

[@kevboard]

nah, I hate it. I'm glad it was dropped in many English speaking parts of the world.

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

14:15 _"... it shifted even further to mean 'but'". In the same meaning as 'sed' in Latin. In German, however, we have two words for it, 'aber' like in "hart aber fair" (do I really have to translate that?) und 'sondern' like in "das war kein Säugling, sondern eine Katze" ("this wasn't a baby but a cat" referring to a sound which cannot be used interchangeably because they do have different meanings.

[@jameshumphreys9715]

As someone who likes football (soccer) people use the word, they are unplayable when they mean unstoppable.

[@giselavaleazar8768]

Autumn is Herfst in Dutch. The verb for 'to harvest' is indeed completely different here: oogsten. According to sources 'oogst' is coming from August.

[@compphysgeek]

I always imagined autumn is called fall because it's the opposite of spring. In German, springen is to jump and fallen ist to fall. and the fall usually comes after the spring.

[@J3rs3y_G1rl]

Screenshot mentioned cursing. 😅 I'm there. Lol 😂 Also, I'm a girl and I use bro and dude on everyone. 😝

[@tomhalla426]

I am an old fart, and the only gender neutral second person plural form of address is “y’all” or variants like “yinz”. Dude refers to guys.

[@mimisor66]

​@@tomhalla426English is not my native language, but dude seems to me to be so informal as to border on rudeness. Am I right?

[@tomhalla426]

@@mimisor66 It depends on context. If you were on TikTok, it would be fairly normal, but I think that service is for airheads. It depends on how you wish to be classified.

[@KayJay01]

@@mimisor66 No, it's not rude at all, unless you use it in a formal setting, but that applies to all words used in the incorrect setting. In the intended setting, informally, there's nothing rude about it.

[@rank944]

​@@tomhalla426 language moves with the societies using it, like the meaning of 'literally' losing its conviction due to younger people perhaps 30 years ago bro would be as strict, but now regardless of personal feelings it is simply used differently by society

[@mattwuk]

Hands up all the 'sad old manns' who love this stuff 🙋‍♂

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

03:50 _"'Guy' actually comes from the name of Guy Fawkes,"_ I used to think it was older: Didn't the Guy of Guisbourne become one of Robin Hood's comrades?

[@sakikhakihaki1267]

Please do speak about etymology more. I enjoy the subject.

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

16:00 _... now in British English, you use 'autumn' ..._ Which is actually Latin. English has become an increasingly Latinized language both in Britain and in America (the AE word for 'lift' is 'elevator').

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

02:35 _I've been studying it in university. That's where 'werewolf' comes from._ Yes, but it also has connections to bella Italia: The Latin word is 'vir'. So, it must be an old Indo- European word.

[@overminus7720]

Didn't know u had another Channel. And you're almost 1M subs, congrats!

[@KevDaly]

"Wer" is (in case it's not obvious) cognate with Latin "vir" I "loathe" the lists of words that must never be said. Americans in particular are so fragile. I recall the children's rhyme "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never harm me".

[@TheUnstableNutcase]

2:16 "No that's only sniperwolf" I don't know if that's supposed to be a joke or not? Plenty of women use the word "bro" in a gender neutral way, so I don't know why that remark was made. Also you pronounced "pater" and "canis" wrong at 10:54, the A in both of those words is short, not long. And as for your doubt/confusion over whether head/caput and hound/canis are cognates, a simple look at the Wiktionary pages for those words would have revealed that they're cognates. For example, here's what Wiktionary says for "head": From Middle English hed, heed, heved, heaved, from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source, origin; chief, leader; capital”), from Proto-West Germanic *haubud, from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput. The modern word comes from Old English oblique stem hēafd-, the expected Modern English outcome for hēafod would be *heaved (similar to the Middle English word). Doublet of cape, capo, caput, chef, chief and Howth. Cognate with Scots heid, hede, hevid, heved (“head”), Old English hafola (“head”), North Frisian hood (“head”), Dutch hoofd (“head”), German Haupt (“head”), Swedish huvud (“head”), Danish hoved (“head”), Icelandic höfuð (“head”), Latin caput (“head”), Sanskrit कपाल (kapāla, “skull”), Hindi कपाल (kapāl, “skull”).

[@nothim7321]

Indeed, nutcase, you chose an apt description of yourself.

[@TheUnstableNutcase]

@@nothim7321 What do you mean?

[@nothim7321]

@@TheUnstableNutcase precisely what I typed. No more, no less.

[@arldsouza8463]

OMG I speak hindi and didn't know Kapal would be a cognate with Caput

[@TheUnstableNutcase]

@ I still don't get it, so

[@jensphiliphohmann1876]

02:30 _"The word for 'man' was 'were'."_ Probably a very old word, related to 'vir' in Latin.

[@Stelios.Posantzis]

14:01 Clearly something you had to go outside to use! That's what I thought!

[@CaptainBoban]

The word björn,ber,beer or bear is commonly accepted to be a "noa-name" in all germanic languages.

[@FlorianD30]

No woman I know would respond well to me calling her bro or dude. Best case scenario she takes it as a joke but more likely as an insult.

[@Siegbert85]

4:46 "Really only survives in English". All Germanic languages, I would say. It's in German and Dutch at least. Also I knew that one because Professor Snapes told as in Prisoner of Azkaban.

[@mmmirele]

heh, so there is a reason why I (native English speaker) call oranges "norriges".

[@Ciprian-IonutPanait]

2:34 in most languages the word for human also means man. Interesting factoid

[@offgridcabinbelgium]

Origin of names is also interesting; the parents of Jesus Christ named their son after the two words you yell when you hit your thumb with a hammer ( Cunk ).

[@ryantannar5301]

dude is a gender neutral thing in California for sure. It's a regional dialect thing I guess

[@pigemperor]

"bro" definitely not.

[@pigemperor]

I thought grimm's law applied in general to the reconstruction of protolanguages? Did linguistics years ago, but are there any proper linguists here to tell me. Btw jackson crawford's channel has the really gnarly academic stuff if anyone is interested.

[@lawofseven1465]

Didn't you know the Germanic languages are descended from the same one as Latin and Greek?

[@koppelia]

2:34 cognate with latin vir

[@TheUnstableNutcase]

The "i" in vir is short, not long

[@koppelia]

@TheUnstableNutcase thx

[@sasi5841]

7:06 colonel is another examples

[@petermsiegel573]

Colonel was a respelling of coronel towards the Italian colonello, while maintaining the pronunciation taken from French (with expected adjustments). Colonello in Italian comes from Latin, but that’s not the reason English adjusted the spelling.

[@Ciprian-IonutPanait]

3:38 world lume from lumen light. all that is under the sun/light

[@napoleonfeanor]

Frisian sti kept pre Roman month names and one is named harvest month

[@BGBPW]

“Unalived” absolutely disgusts me, too. It’s a sign of a weak society, in my opinion.

[@Spiffington]

I don’t blame people using it to get around censorship. I blame the censorship itself. I only blame them when they use it in a setting that isn’t censored.

[@morthim]

'or am i just a sad old man' 'if you are, it is not because of loving etymology. it is an offshoot of sorta linguistics' not going to say much this comment, but i find it sad that most of the people who talk about language and communication are not able to do such. being a sad old man is not necessarily an offshoot of 'sorta linguistics'. depression is a bonus of education but not the goal in itself. the goal itself is... give me a minute it will come to me.

[@LovePikaMusic]

Had to do a double take but I'm pretty sure the second sentence is talking about etymology ("it is an offshoot of linguistics"), not about being a sad old man xD

[@LovePikaMusic]

Also, historical linguistics. Not "sorta" linguistics.

[@crbgo9854]

Some people didn't stop saying the k in knight until the 60s and 70s I know in American English. you can watch older films that use it. Like one that comes to mind is I believe the little drummer boy claymation. I know some older people whose grandparents used to pronounce it also.

[@petermsiegel573]

Well, it was lost in English by the early 17th century at the latest, and perhaps a hundred years before that.

[@UmamiPapi]

👍👍

[@Shay45]

I have never been this early b4

[@Donutdove]

Never been this early in my life