The Twelve Days of Christmas: Word History Connections
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ธ.ค. 2015
- The etymology of every item in “The 12 Days of Christmas”: bodily functions, loaves of bread, & even more birds than you thought!
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Thanks for another great video guys! I love this series, it has given me a new appreciation for etymology. To you and all viewers, Merry Yule, Merry Christmas, Happy (belated) Hannukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Festivus!
+Knightindernacht Thank you! I'm happy to spread the love of etymology, if I can! And a very happy holiday-of-your-choice to you, too--personally I'm pretty excited about the Solstice coming up, and having the sun start to come back!
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Happy Hanukkah from Israel!
Love it. Your videos are thorough and entertaining. Thoroughly entertaining.
Minor quibble: the francesca is not a spear, but a type of thrown axe.
Interesting. I've always heard it described as a spear, but to be honest I'd never seen a picture of it. Have just looked it up and yes, it's an axe; but proto-Germanic etymological dictionaries also list a frankon, which is a javelin. So I guess that's what I was referring to.
Ah, sorry, dint know about that. Do you have any context for the word? Is it described as a javelin by the franks themselves, or by the other peoples (my guess would be romans). Because I can easily see some roman historian 200 km from the Limes hearing about these franks who throw deadly things at our gallant boys, and just assume its something like our pilum.
Also, can I bombard you with my etymological questions/suggestions?
I think you could easily put together a story centered around towns/garded places and those who grad them. Town comes from, as far as I know, the germanic word for fence (zaun), being a fenced area, which is related to schanze (earthen breastwork or somesuch), which is where the world skanzen comes from in Nordic languages, which gave the name to the first open-air museum, and is used as a general name for such in a few languages.
Also, I think that Gardariki (the old norse word for Rus) and Castilia mean more or less the same, being "area of many towns/castles".
Speaking of which, the Hungarian word for city is literally (in the proper usage of that word): "place with a castle".
Sorry, I'll stop now :)
I don't actually know the context for the word -- I've only seen it in etymological dictionaries, I don't know the source texts. So it may be just a guess as to what the exact weapon is, for all I know.
That's a really interesting cluster of words/names/ideas -- thank you, and I'll put it on my ever-growing list of subjects!
This is amazing work. Please keep it up!
+jiangjunizzy Thanks!
I'd never a expect a university professor to discuss flatulence at length.
I've always wondered about this song, and your video has given some great insights! Thanks!
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching. :)
is this going to bring up 12 ruffed grouse, 11 purple sandpipers, 10 ivory woodpeckers, 9 starlings dancing, 8 egrets milking, and 5 ringed pheasants?
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Great video!
+Stevonz1234 Thanks!
Well after eating all that rich food you certainly will be farting for 12 days. Yo ho ho merry next Christmas!!
at 12:45 "trump = fart" has been proven more correct than you possibly could've imagined when you produced this video in back in 2015
farts... nice, now every time I hear a trumpet I'm gonna think about farts xDDD can't wait to tell my Dad, he was a musician and knows how to play the trumpet. : ) ...... mmm.... wonder if the name "Trump" could also mean fart >D
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