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Alliterative
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I'm a university prof with a PhD in Medieval Studies. I use language, literature, and history to explore the web of connections in the world around us. Many of the videos on this channel start with a word as a jumping off point, with its history and etymology opening up a way to explore history and culture more widely. Others examine literary devices, cognitive science, myth, medieval literature, history of science, and a wide variety of other topics.
The "endless knot" is a common visual motif of an interconnected knot with no beginning or end, found in many cultures around the world. My use of the symbol is a reference to the 14th c. poem "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight", where it describes the pentangle which Gawain has emblazoned on his shield as a symbol of the interconnectedness of things. Here it also gains significance from its comparison to the cognitive science hexagram or heptagram which shows the interrelated nature of various fields in cognitive science.
The "endless knot" is a common visual motif of an interconnected knot with no beginning or end, found in many cultures around the world. My use of the symbol is a reference to the 14th c. poem "Sir Gawain & the Green Knight", where it describes the pentangle which Gawain has emblazoned on his shield as a symbol of the interconnectedness of things. Here it also gains significance from its comparison to the cognitive science hexagram or heptagram which shows the interrelated nature of various fields in cognitive science.
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Labour Unions: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Labour Unions: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Pigs: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Pigs: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Food: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Food: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Reptiles: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Reptiles: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Time: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Time: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Where did "She" come from? (Endnote for Nation)
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Where did "She" come from? (Endnote for Nation)
Valentines Day: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Valentines Day: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
The Indo-European Origins of Sanskrit (Endnote to Nation)
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The Indo-European Origins of Sanskrit (Endnote to Nation)
How the Origin of "Nation" Connects to Myth, Language, Gender, and More (feat. Cynical Historian)
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How the Origin of "Nation" Connects to Myth, Language, Gender, and More (feat. Cynical Historian)
Saving the Etymological Sea for #TeamSeas
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Saving the Etymological Sea for #TeamSeas
School: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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School: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Gardens: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Gardens: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Fruit: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Fruit: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Birds: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Birds: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Did Sea Shanties Give Us Rock 'n Roll?
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Did Sea Shanties Give Us Rock 'n Roll?
Christmas: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Christmas: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Bugs: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Bugs: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Vegetables: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Vegetables: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Good News: Exploring the Roots of Gospel Music
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Good News: Exploring the Roots of Gospel Music
Animals: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
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Animals: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies
Soul Food & Early Black Women's Writing: The Endnotes
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Soul Food & Early Black Women's Writing: The Endnotes
The Scandalous History of the Manhattan Cocktail
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The Scandalous History of the Manhattan Cocktail
Where do the names of the days come from? : The History of the Calendar
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Where do the names of the days come from? : The History of the Calendar
Planting an Etymological Tree for #TeamTrees
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Planting an Etymological Tree for #TeamTrees
Halloween Tidbit: Virgil the Magician Endnote
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Halloween Tidbit: Virgil the Magician Endnote
Some would say one needs to prove the validity of a religion before even reaching questions about orthodoxy. What if you're wrong? You either wasted your life, or you may have made the real god or God's angry that you arrogantly went with something else.
German word schwer means heavy or difficult. Sword is Schwert
What I mean is I don't know how to get in touch with you.
I need the guy that made this video to get in touch with me. I don't know how I can do that
I know the day and how it doesn't correspond to a continuous year.
All comes from Sanskrit
I vote for fisc (=whale) being the first English word because it would make Melville happy.
So, ali desidero mean ali, the stars?
Words 're-arranged' into 'other words' often produces useful insights. For example Crimea spells America and Crimean, American. Is this where the real Civil War unfolded?
The 'Green Knight' connection - how about this one? @13:11 - Richard 'Dickie' Doyle. Doyle - A doyle (doi-lee) is a small ornamental mat, usually of lace or linen.
Time after time you keep finding strange and interesting nuggets of information.
You should talk about the difference of how the RC church and Orthodox church view Mary/women
Why are the words only going back to Greek, roman and European history? Africa and Sumerian languages were around first so I’m just curious.
Respect is a two way street. If you don’t respect that i don’t want to be called cis then why should I respect you. I am already meeting you halfway by calling you a trans woman.
A barrista at the coffee bar told me about it.
Fascinating
Why do magicians say they are using magnetics or energy???
Love your vids keep them up king
FORGIVE ME MOST HIGH
You and Rick Steve's share a certain quality about your voices that I really appreciate. I can be so stressed out sometimes, I'm very neurotic and I'm working on it, but I feel that listening to things like this is a much healthier coping mechanism than other things.
how many hours does it take to make one of these?
*"receive"* or "recipe" and yes I would agree "take"
Donald trump is fate 😅
i would call them that
you never hear the word fangle except in newfangled
Cool!
A Canadian said that us Aussies are much more like Canucks than their southern neighbours. I take this as a lovely compliment as I have much respect for Canadians. ❤
Who do you think is responsible for reincarnation
What are your thoughts on migene
مرآة Arabic
I like your videos. Very informative. Thanks a lot for the effort. Can you please do a video explaining the word "present"? I have a feeling that the two meanings "present time" and "gift" are etymologically connected. Like; the present moment is a gift from god? What do you think?
"Present" as in "present time" comes from Latin "praesens", present participle of "praeesse" literally "be before". "Present" as in "gift" comes from Latin "praesentare", literally "to make be before", AKA "to show", aka "to present (to someone)". A present is something you present to someone, with a connotation in English that it generally refers to a gift.
Interesting
You don't have to know the language to understand where it comes from..It comes from the imagination and belief of people.
Where is Rockefeller 😅 system creation?
He's the real deal, he sat on my knee as a little boy. Hmm, sounds reliable. In the olden days we were more physically orientated.
This guy sucks
genuflect?
connecting this two words is nonsense, genus is from żenić, and knee is from gnie .
Instructions unclear, i took a knee and now an ambulance and the police are chasing me saying that it was "wrong" to do so
Genunchi is knee in Romanian
“genuine” 😏
that's quite the leap. And of course bending the knee is a sign of submission.
I have never understood how taking a knee is so offensive and taken as disrespect; it’s submission and supplicancy a la “please stop murdering us”. No disrespect in any request for mercy
@@socratessquared9804 Interesting. I wonder if there's something I could do that would say "please stop being the group with the highest rate of violent crimes if you didn't want to face the consequences of that." You think yoga has that pose?
I'm sorry, aren't may and might modals, rather tham auxilliaries?
Waita second, I thought chamb/cama meant bed, so chambre/camera was like a place with a bed.
All of that and you never mentioned the word genuflect
I suppose he does in the full video
@@thomasporter4627 I have no idea.
OPPS U DIDN'T FINISHED. AS I WAS SAYING I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY ONLY MAGIC, ESPECIALLY WITCHCRAFT IS ONLY CALLED THE OCCULT WHEN TO ME ANY MAN MADE RELIGION (I MAY SPELLED THAT WORD WRONG BUT NOT SURE) IS AN OCCULT. BUT THAT WORD IS ONLY USED FOR MAGIC OR ESPECIALLY WITCHCRAFT. TOO ME THATS NOT COOL AT ALL,. TALK ABOUT OFFENSIVE AND RUDE. THIS TO ME IS OUTDATED VIDEO SINCE THIS IS NOW 2024. JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. YOU LOST ME AT ALMOST THE START. OH WELL IT DOESN'T MATTER. INTERESTING BUT ....THANKS, PEACE.
DAM THANKS FOR MAKING A SIMPLE WORD CONFUSING AND MAN I AM GLAD THIS VIDEO HAS ENDED WHAT THE HELL. YOU JUST GO ON AND ON BUT I SEE NOR HEAR MUCH PROOF. THEIR IN BITS AND PIECE'S NOTHING MORE. AND ITS AGAIN CONFUSING. AND I HOPE YOU BOTH AREN'T TRYING TO SAY MAGIC IS BAD AND BECAUSE IT AN'T YES YOU JUST LIKE ANYTHING ELSE CAN BE USED IN A BAD WAY BUT IT CAN ALSO BE USED IN A VERY , GOOD POSITIVE WAY AS WELL . I AM SORTA OF OFFENDED BY SOME THINGS YOU BOTH SAID AT FIRST. BUT I WON'T LET YOU EFFORT ME THAT WAY EVEN THOW ITS OFFENSIVE. YOU AND YOUR VISTOR WAS BEING RIDE AND OFFENSE AT FIRST. I WON'T LET THAT GET TOO ME BUT OTHERS MAY NOT LET IT GO. SOME OF US TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. AND BY THE WAY SCIENCE AND MAGIC PLUS WITCHCRAFT USED TO BE THE SAME BUT THAT OBVIOUSLY CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE WICKED CHURCH AND OTHERS. PROBLEM TO ME ITS STILL NOT FULLY ACCEPTED BY PEOPLE OF SCIENCE UNFORTUNATELY. AND I WANT TO ADD I ALWAYS WONDERED
Warden & Guardian 😂😂😂
Perhaps connected to the Spanish “camino” for “way, path”
"Cheminée" sounds like an obvious derivative of "chemin" (path) in French as well, so I always thought of it as the 'smoke's pathway'.