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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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Get a rope. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by FlyingSquid to c/microblogmemes

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I'm not explaining this one to the kids. Someone else can.

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[–] scrion 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely correct. Lady stems from bread-kneader, in fact: https://www.etymonline.com/word/lord

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’m going to go with Kevin Stroud of The History of the English Language Podcast on that one.

[–] scrion 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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/daigij%C7%AD

Other than that, sounds like an interesting podcast!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's fantastic, I just re-listened to the whole thing.