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Uncle Den 🦣

@neandertall@mstdn.social
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Deposed queen of the Stone Age

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Joined November 12, 2022
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Uncle Den 🦣 @neandertall@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2024
Uncle Den 🦣
@neandertall@mstdn.social

Deposed queen of the Stone Age 
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@deraffe@chaos.social @AlisonW@fedimon.uk @BrianBinh@dice.camp @bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com for a rhyming parallel take for example German “Fahrt”, a feminine noun that declines like Art, and comes from the Proto-Germanic i-stem *fardiz < proto-IE *portís ‘a passage or act of transporting’
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Uncle Den 🦣 @neandertall@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2024
Uncle Den 🦣
@neandertall@mstdn.social

Deposed queen of the Stone Age 
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Replying to @deraffe@chaos.social
@deraffe@chaos.social @AlisonW@fedimon.uk @BrianBinh@dice.camp @bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com probably! It depends on who’s writing it and when it was published. I don’t know how they could have missed that one. The meaning is a little different: “nature, inner character” vs “kind, sort”, but I can see how both meanings could be extensions of the even older meaning “the act of putting things together or into an orderly arrangement”.
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Uncle Den 🦣 @neandertall@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2024
Uncle Den 🦣
@neandertall@mstdn.social

Deposed queen of the Stone Age 
[they/she/he/whatevs]

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@deraffe@chaos.social @AlisonW@fedimon.uk @BrianBinh@dice.camp @bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com this High German consonant shift also led to proto-Germanic *t sounds changing to /ts/ sounds, which is why the word for 2 starts with a t in Dutch and English: ‘twee’, ‘two’, but a z in German: ‘zwei’
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Uncle Den 🦣 @neandertall@mstdn.social · Apr 28, 2024
Uncle Den 🦣
@neandertall@mstdn.social

Deposed queen of the Stone Age 
[they/she/he/whatevs]

mstdn.social
Replying to @deraffe@chaos.social
@deraffe@chaos.social @AlisonW@fedimon.uk @BrianBinh@dice.camp @bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com yeah. In the High German (Deutsch) dialects, proto-Germanic *d sounds shifted to “t” sounds. So “Art” is the regular reflex of proto-Germanic *ardiz “nature, character, manner”. The Proto-Indo-European root word is *h₂ertis ‘an ordering or fixing’, whence also Latin “ars” (art, technique, skill).
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Uncle Den 🦣 @neandertall@mstdn.social · Sep 09, 2023
Uncle Den 🦣
@neandertall@mstdn.social

Deposed queen of the Stone Age 
[they/she/he/whatevs]

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@AlisonW@fedimon.uk @BrianBinh@dice.camp @bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com while Middle English wysard didn’t originally necessarily mean a magic-user, I haven’t seen anything that suggests it was used to mean a “wiseass”, more a word for someone very wise like a sage or philosopher
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Uncle Den 🦣 @neandertall@mstdn.social · Sep 09, 2023
Uncle Den 🦣
@neandertall@mstdn.social

Deposed queen of the Stone Age 
[they/she/he/whatevs]

mstdn.social
Replying to @AlisonW@fedimon.uk
@AlisonW@fedimon.uk @BrianBinh@dice.camp @bluedragon@masto.yttrx.com agreed, while -ard in Middle English generally creates mildly pejorative agent nouns, it’s parallel in use to Dutch -aard, which can also just create words meaning “__-like person/thing” and in at least some cases comes from Proto-Germanic *ardiz meaning “inner nature, character”.
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