Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’
Detail from Tacuinum Sanitatis, a 14th-century handbook of medieval health.
The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can reconstruct the stages of this process through etymology, which studies the historical development of the lexicon of a language.
English words tell a lot of stories. To get back to their origins, linguists apply the comparative method. Languages are not isolated entities, but belong to linguistic families ...
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