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   Yoïn van Spijk (yvanspijk@toot.community)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 15:49:05 JST Yoïn van Spijk

   If you dissect the French adverb 'aujourd'hui' (today) etymologically, you get five Latin words: 'ad illud diurnum dē hodiē' (on the day of today).

   Many more Romance adverbs and prepositions were formed by combining words, already in spoken Latin or later in the history of its daughter languages.

   In the infographic you see a number of stacked words that have an interesting history.

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   Yoïn van Spijk (yvanspijk@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 21:43:56 JST Yoïn van Spijk

   There are many words for women in the Germanic languages.

   In their history, some underwent amelioration: their meaning became more positive. The ancestor of 'queen' just meant "wife".

   Others underwent pejoration. Calling someone a 'wijf' in Dutch is now an insult.

   Here's more: