Classical Studies 2800A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vermouth, Kerchief, Herstory
24 Nov 2016
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When people doesn"t know the etymology of a word, they just change the word to fit their guess. Old manuscripts had small red pictures, they are miniatures that decorate the book. Two word that have the same name; that sound the same, but have different meaning. Being cheap with bad intent, no connection to the racial slur. Fire: cur- > to cover, to cover the fire/lights; to go to sleep, handkerchief. Handkerchief is a cloth for the hand. Female was a misinterpretation of femella: herstory. Crayfish: crevice, the crustacean that likes to live in the nooks, people tur(cid:374)ed it i(cid:374)to (cid:272)rayfish, (cid:271)ut it is (cid:374)ot a fish . Take a consonant and replace it with another consonant. Popular in english, not in other language. Why so much reduplication: a play on language, people like to reduplicate, silly and fun, for the sake of creating a new word, this is what babies do. Creating a word by removing prefixes or suffixes.
