#etymologies — Public Fediverse posts

More than a 1000 followers here. Thank you! We will keep working on #maps and more #etymologies soon

https://mapologies.com/counting

"The First Printed #World Map from #IsidoreOfSeville's '#Etymologies', [...] often referred to as the first #encyclopaedia. It contained information on a very wide range of topics. The 'Etymologies' were a hugely influential source of knowledge for many centuries. [...] The use of stunning rubrication - applying red highlights by hand to significant printed capital letters - shows the intersection between #handwritten #manuscripts and the newly invented #printingpress. The T-O #map illustrating this page is the earliest printed European world map. [...] Date of production : 1472."
https://oculi-mundi.com
This is one of the 120 maps of the #Sunderland collection, "[...] a #Swiss investor and specialist in corporate finance [...] began his professional career at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [...] He subsequently joined [...] #UBS [...] In 1983 [...] CEO of #Elders Finance and Investment Company in Melbourne [...] returned to Switzerland in 1989 and acquired Adinvest AG [...] Key investment themes included life sciences, e-commerce, fintech and the digital economy. [...] a PhD [...] addressed the stability of funds in the banking system."
That fascination for #maps, the eye (gaze) and #immersiveinterfaces of wealthy men specialized in #extraction.
Thanks @sto_bxl1965 for the ref
#cartography

Philadelphia’s Hidden Etymologies [map]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Philadelphia_placename_etymologies <-- Wikipedia page
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[fascinating stuff, I love place and people etymologies, especially displayed with such good cartography – and I don’t even know Philadelphia!]
“This is a list of the sources of some of the place names in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #cartography #etymologies #etymology #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #city
@etymologynerd

1000 followers on #instagram is a good chance to share the #map of one thousand in different languages and their #etymologies.

Be the one thousand-one: https://www.instagram.com/mapologiess

#thousand #mil #mile #tisiac #bin #tisic #ezer #tausend #tuhat #mapologies #etymlogymap #mapper

1000 followers on #instagram is a good chance to share the #map of one thousand in different languages and their #etymologies.

Be the one thousand-one: https://www.instagram.com/mapologiess

#thousand #mil #mile #tisiac #bin #tisic #ezer #tausend #tuhat #mapologies #etymlogymap #mapper

1000 followers on #instagram is a good chance to share the #map of one thousand in different languages and their #etymologies.

Be the one thousand-one: https://www.instagram.com/mapologiess

#thousand #mil #mile #tisiac #bin #tisic #ezer #tausend #tuhat #mapologies #etymlogymap #mapper

1000 followers on #instagram is a good chance to share the #map of one thousand in different languages and their #etymologies.

Be the one thousand-one: https://www.instagram.com/mapologiess

#thousand #mil #mile #tisiac #bin #tisic #ezer #tausend #tuhat #mapologies #etymlogymap #mapper

1000 followers on #instagram is a good chance to share the #map of one thousand in different languages and their #etymologies.

Be the one thousand-one: https://www.instagram.com/mapologiess

#thousand #mil #mile #tisiac #bin #tisic #ezer #tausend #tuhat #mapologies #etymlogymap #mapper

@blueberrywerewolf

Wolf: “the dangerous one”
Fox: “the tailed one”
Bear: “the brown one”
Hare: “the grey one”

#ProtoIndoEuropean #etymologies

TIL that the Punic surname “Barca”, as in the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca (as well as his father Hamilcar, and brothers Hasdrubal and Mago), is Phoenician for “lightning”. I don’t know how I never made the connection before, given that Phoenician is Semitic and I speak Hebrew (where the same √brq root is also used to mean “lightning”). I guess my brain is just in full on Latin Mode or something when I’m thinking of ancient Rome? Anyway - Hannibal “Lightning” Barca! ⚡️

#Linguistics #Etymology #Etymologies #Punic #Phoenician #Semitic #Carthage #RomanHistory #History

@CarveHerName @grb090423

There doesn't seem to be any work going on on the categorisation of hashtags just simplistic things like most popular lists.

I would like to see that kind of work happening.
When using hashtags you should boost the posting to get it cross-posted to other instances.

The more consistent you are with your hashtags the more likely that they'll be used by others.

#semantics #Semantics #Categorisation #Etymologists #etymologies

@CarveHerName @grb090423

There doesn't seem to be any work going on on the categorisation of hashtags just simplistic things like most popular lists.

I would like to see that kind of work happening.
When using hashtags you should boost the posting to get it cross-posted to other instances.

The more consistent you are with your hashtags the more likely that they'll be used by others.

#semantics #Semantics #Categorisation #Etymologists #etymologies

#Okay, I never realised #ok had such a disputed list of proposed #etymologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK#Proposed_etymologies

Seems the three most accepted ones are:
— early #Boston #fad of intentional #misspellings ('Oll Korrekt' and its predecessor OW, 'Oll Wright'), combined with a presidential campaign by #MartinVanBuren, whose nickname was #OldKinderhook.

— Derived from words used by #Choctaw (#Chahta) and other #NativeAmerican people, such as 'okeh' or 'hoke'.

— #WestAfrican 'waw-kay', or 'o ke'.

#etymology