Russian plural for fire sounds very similar, just with a different stress - "огни́" [ɐˈɡnʲi]; singular is "ого́нь" [ɐˈɡonʲ]. In other slavic languages fire also has similarly sounding names.
@@Chadohfax I just looked it up, but apparently Korean is basically in its own language family. Like they have a couple loanwords from Chinese/Japanese, but in terms of the whole language, we don't know what proto-korean would've sounded like and no other language groups are proven definitively to develop into Korean
There's a story by him where some scholars discuss these similarities between seemingly unrelated languages, but the explanation they propose is a sort of psychic connection between all humanity, it's a weird story but I think it proves that you're right.
A nice idea to ease fans of monstrum into this new world of otherwords by starting with the word "Monster" and featuring Dr. Z. I didn't need any convincing, but I am sure many viewers appreciated this.
Totes agree, I know some people only want one creator per channel, I used to feel the same way, but I look forward to seeing these sprinkled in going forward myself.
I find it fascinating to see how a word evolved. My family has to be one of the few that opens the dictionary and reads random words' meanings aloud for fun. Also, I've found myself many times searching for the etimology of a specific word and sometimes frustrated at the lack of information. I look forward for more content from otherwords
👍👍👍 My family also read the dictionary for entertainment. There was even a family heirloom dictionary, since gone to a museum, passed down from the mid-1700s. It had some pretty weird definitions in it...
@@freedapeeple4049 So did my family. We have emigrated by happenstance and our old dictionaries didn’t make it. It is not the same experience with online dictionaries... You get far more information, but the pleasure of flipping through the pages of a dictionary and finding new words is lost.
Look around you on this platform to see etymology happening in real time. TH-cam censorship, at the behest of their CEO Susan, is creating etymology right before our eye. For example, words like (un)alive are now becoming part of the lexicon among younger viewers.
When I was kid, any time I had to look a word up in the dictionary, I would learn at least one other word from the same page that I hadn't previously known. When I had kids, I had them do the same.
"What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once" - Ocean Vuong
I've been a bit of an amateur etymology nerd for years. I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am that PBS have finally started a show about it. Having grown up with mild dyspraxia, I found it very difficult to memorise the spellings of so many words. Learning the relationships that words have with each other and their histories brings them to life and gives me an understanding of how words should be spelled and what they might mean. e.g. privilege has French origins (explaining the "ege" at the end instead of "idge" or "edge") and is a cognate of private, privy and legal - meaning it is a law that only applies to a select number of people.
@@pbsstoried I mean look at a verity of the burger the McDonald's across the world none two taste the same or noodles became spaghetti best estimate for why PIE and rest of world languages popped could be trade via the silk road both water and sea
Arguably, word origins are incredibly important. When learning English, it is super helpful to mentally map the potential origins of a word to help identify its spelling and its meaning.
There is something truly wonderful in the utter human reality of how Dr. Z presents her family tree of the word monster so fluidly and then at the very end trips over a few words ... and simply smiles about it. It makes this whole video seem much more human. I love etymology, and I think it offers much more to critically understanding certain aspects of this world than it is credited with.
I wonder what it would be in English if it weren't for the Norman invasion... We use Monster in German, too, but we also have 'Ungeheuer' as a synonym, which also means 'uncanny'
There actually is groups that have developed a fo of English that has removed (or at least attempted too) the romantic elements in English. You could google it if you’re interested.
Ooh, yes, they're really neat! One example I remember seeing one of them use was that while the word "sunshade" hasn't got that newer Norman/French/Latin influence in it, the word "umbrella" does (you guys may remember the words "umbra" and "penumbra" from school, being the Latin names for parts of a shadow). And it's weird because they're basically the same thing, aren't they? Like a sun umbrella, and a rain umbrella. And yet, the one that came down without that Romanticized influence is basically just a portmanteau of two existing English words, which means that without that Norman influence, we probably ought to be reaching for our "rainshades". :D
I'm so excited to see this kind of language content on Storied! Linguistics is my favorite thing to nerd out over and I love the content that Storied produces, so this is the best of both worlds for me.
Look around you on this platform to see etymology happening in real time. TH-cam censorship, at the behest of their CEO Susan, is creating etymology right before our eye. For example, words like (un)alive are now becoming part of the lexicon among younger viewers.
Many years ago (ten-ish?), when I learned that _Monstrum_ was originally meant for creatures born with abnormalities, I adopted monsters as my Pride identity symbol (I was born premature, with cerebral palsy). And now, I like to remind people that blaming the *monster* for bringing bad luck is like blaming a *stop sign* for the car crash you get into when you drive past one...
Capri, as I recall, is used in English as the word cover. We get words like cap and cobra and the Arab word gaber (means grave). It ultimately means: to bridge or leap. The idea is the same, “to cover a space”. In astrology we get Capricorn; the goat that leaps or leaping horn.
In Dutch the word "monster" not only means "fearful, hideous creature", as in English, but also "sample" or "specimen", as in "bloedmonster": "blood sample". In the latter case it comes from the Latin "monstrare", "to show", which also occurs in the word "demonstrate".
I love that a series like this exists. Etymology has always been something that was always just fun to me. Do we absolutely need to know this information to survive? No, but it’s interesting to know about history
Etymology can help you deal with many technical terms in English, and thus to sort out whether someone is lying to you, which is quite important nowadays.
Second-year middle school French teacher here. I give a lesson every six weeks on why English and French share so much vocab and we focus on the Norman invasion and the theory of Indo-European languages. Seeing this from one of my favorite sources was extremely reaffirming. My nerdiness is really paying off!
The content in this presentation is so good that it is um beyond words. The style for this presentation is so clever as it highlights so much data. I was getting 70s PBS show vibes from the graphics, and that was before the Sesame Street clip was shown. Thanks to all of you for maintaining this channel
Always loved exploring etymology. Sometimes, a casually spoken word will have me day dreaming for a minute about where that word came from. There is so much insight into culture and history from the study of word origins. Glad to have found a channel that goes deeply into it.
I look forward to see what words you trace around the Halloween season. Witch, horror, demon. All probably have their own unique paths through history and to our modern day vocabulary.
Here's are some clews to start you on your journey of discovery: witch is cognate with "life," horror is associated with hair and demon is related to genius.
I can't wait to be able to teach high school! This channel has so many useful videos when it come to teaching literature, history and so many other things!
I'm a happy owner of PBS's "The story of English" on DVD and its companion book. Languages are living, evolving things. It's fascinating to learn about the origins and history of a word, slang phrase or saying.
I have the book and would love to acquire the video. I've watched it several times and never tire of the presentation by the much missed Robin MacNeil.
So glad you started this new show! I loved the idea said in the video: through evolution of words you can see the evolution of human thought. And at the end there still are things that make us think and feel today just as they did thousands of years ago. Somehow it feels very heartwarming and hopeful. Thank you for such an amazing video (as always with Storied)!
Storied knows how to get viewers to check out their new show: have Dr. Z do the intro and put her name in the title 😅 nice new show, by the way. Really interesting!
This is an incredible idea for a series and I'm excited to see more! Etymology has always fascinated me but I've never found videos on it quite like this.
Look around you on this platform and witness etymology in real time. TH-cam censorship, at the behest of their CEO Susan, is creating etymology right before our eye. For example, words like (un)alive are now becoming part of the lexicon among younger viewers.
Many people get interested in linguistics and etymology by first dealing with culture and history, which are things that answer a lot of questions about society.
This is one of the reasons I’d love to be a kid again. Didn’t have the internet growing up, but had the public library and our big encyclopedia collection at home. My mind was always moving. I was one of the ones who always wondered where words originated from. Good video.
Like etymology of the f-slur for men loving men, same as the meaning for the misnomer that comes from the "sin of Sodom" being all about contentment and consent. Villain, nice, polite, are not what you'd expect but twisting a perception of reality is how fascism works.
Awesome content, when I was on Preparatory School I loved Ethimology class, really was one of my favorites along with Ethic and Logic classes. Greetings from Mexico.
Oh! I am so glad this exists! I do not think etymology is to be dismissed. It's part of our history just as history is part of our language. It shows where we come from and where we might go. I cannot wait to see and hear more from both of these beautiful bad-ass ladies!
Learning word origins is great because the background can provide further insight regarding the settings some words were first used, as well as additional connotation which is really huge when you want to get a point across.
I'm probably on etymonline.com at least once a day on average. Once a word has caught my attention I have to know where it came from and how we ended up using it in English the way we do. Some of the journeys words have been on are epic. 'Toilet' is a good example lol. That word is like that friend you have who has worked in a dozen or so totally unrelated professions over the years.
Kind of like the tower of Babylon. And not surprisingly, seemingly unrelated languages such as Serbian and Persian have a huge number of almost identical words.
I wish I could like and favourite this twice. I have interests in anthropology, linguistics, etymology, mythology, pop culture and horror. I am soooo hyped for this new series, I already LOVE Monstrum, so let's goooooooooo
OMG. This show is my newly discovered "nerd-zone"!! I'm loving it. I hope the future episodes goes deeper into tackling the syntaxes of different languages. Ooooh. I'm a nerd.
I'm a word nerd, so I'm delighted to hear about this new addition to Storied. I enjoyed your tracing the word Monster back to its origins. As in one metaphor for tracing word origins, from a fruit back to its flower > tree > sapling > sprout > roots > and seed. Etymology is fun. Thanks
Dear Dr. Brosovsky, you are a great addition to the channel! Etymology is a fascinating field. It reveals so much about the human mind and how humans express their thoughts.
I truly love this show; thank you for making it! There isn't another show about etimology on TH-cam. I really look forward to each new episode! Love you doctors!!!
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes - Did I say THANK-YOU for this video specifically and OTHERWORDS in general? Because THANK-YOU!!! (I'm putting a good word in with Santa for you.)
I'm busy writing a story about a monster and Im realising that I've been using this character as a vehicle to express things that I wish I was taught as a child. Very very interesting. great video!
Oh this series was made for me! I hope you do an episode on the word "literally:" I think it's fascinating how we make a link between physical reality and emphasis, and how the former is related to the written word.
The animal words fact blew my mind - I've always thought that was such a weird point in English. Sooo excited to see where this show goes. I love etymology!
Welcome and all the best for your channel! For years I observe an increasing attitude towards language that tries to handle meaning like numbers and reduces words into beds of Procrustes. I think as a result, people loose the ability to understand allusions, connotations, irony, metaphors, in other words (pun absolutely intended ;-) they loose the richness of human communication. People who feel insecure in their communication are afraid of communication. They seek simple communication. (Together with other factors!) that can mean conspiracy theories and religious and political extremism. Your channel is a wonderful way to offer enjoyable and stimulating experiences with language!
What a valuable video series this is. Words are so basic to our culture that we seldom question them. I am so pleased to see 'Otherwords' appear that it was a no-brainer addition to my subscription list. Thanks again.
Marrying good animations/well presented graphics with a good presenter is bound to attract attention. PBS seems to fit hand in glove with TH-cam. Subscribed.
Great video, I'm glad you went down the path of etymology (and historical linguistics!) Just two corrections: - Whenever you show a word that is reconstructed (= theoretically existing), you should mark it with a * sign in front of it. So it should be *men- for P.I.E. - Vulgar Latin did not *mix* with Gaulish (mixing would result in a pidgin or a creol), rather Gaulish has *influenced* Vulgar Latin. Mixing two languages is different from languages being cognates with each other (descending from the same ancestor). I always hear people not familiar with linguistic get confused about it... Thank you again for this intriguing video! :)
Welcome aboard Dr. B! I'm excited for this new addition to one of my favorite channels (and it's always a treat to see Dr. Z make a guest appearance with some Monstrum content in one of the other Storied videos). Thinking about the "monster/mind" connection reminds me of something I read recently in a book by Robert Sapolsky about how our brains appear to not only be able to think in symbols and metaphors, including words, but on some level will often view the symbol as being the same as the thing itself. So the word for a monster can conjure up some of the same feelings as actually encountering something monstrous.
Thanks, I'm very excited to be here! Do you happen to have the name of that book? (My best guess is Behave, based on a list of his book titles.) I live for book recommendations! - Dr. B
@@pbsstoried Yup, Behave! It was really enjoyable and he did a very good job at explaining things in a way a non-neuroscientist could follow. A friend of mine suggested it to me and I would definitely second her recommendation.
One of my favorite cognates in PIE is "Agni"- Sanskrit for fire/Hindu Fire god that can go all the way to English as is "ignite"
So that's why they called it an Agni-Kai!
@@DaBezzzz I believe "Kai" comes from Japanese, meaning "to meet"
Russian plural for fire sounds very similar, just with a different stress - "огни́" [ɐˈɡnʲi]; singular is "ого́нь" [ɐˈɡonʲ]. In other slavic languages fire also has similarly sounding names.
It's strange because because "cooking hearth" in Korean is "Ah goong ii" sounds so close to "agni" as well.
@@Chadohfax I just looked it up, but apparently Korean is basically in its own language family. Like they have a couple loanwords from Chinese/Japanese, but in terms of the whole language, we don't know what proto-korean would've sounded like and no other language groups are proven definitively to develop into Korean
JRR Tolkien would be so proud that these kinds of videos exist now.
There's a story by him where some scholars discuss these similarities between seemingly unrelated languages, but the explanation they propose is a sort of psychic connection between all humanity, it's a weird story but I think it proves that you're right.
@@Cesaryeyo akashic records?
@@MisterCynic18 Notion Club Papers
@Gerald McKencie he took Gandalf and most of the dwarves' Names from a list of names in an old norse text
Yea. While watching this video the first thing I thought of was Tolkien. He ties Monstrum, It’s Lit, and now OtherWords together.
A nice idea to ease fans of monstrum into this new world of otherwords by starting with the word "Monster" and featuring Dr. Z. I didn't need any convincing, but I am sure many viewers appreciated this.
Totes agree, I know some people only want one creator per channel, I used to feel the same way, but I look forward to seeing these sprinkled in going forward myself.
@@Spectrulus indeed. I am the same way but for now I like it/ acceptt it
By the way, it's "zed", not "zee".
I now choose to believe that when someone says "Shut your pie hole," it's actually a highly intelligent reference to PIE, and how language evolved.
nice
I’m pretty sure it’s about how you use your mouth to eat pie
then you bypass it by speaking a semitic language
And they began by showing a PIE chart to demonstrate the origins of English. Coincidence?
Or mathematical equation, π
I find it fascinating to see how a word evolved. My family has to be one of the few that opens the dictionary and reads random words' meanings aloud for fun. Also, I've found myself many times searching for the etimology of a specific word and sometimes frustrated at the lack of information. I look forward for more content from otherwords
👍👍👍 My family also read the dictionary for entertainment. There was even a family heirloom dictionary, since gone to a museum, passed down from the mid-1700s. It had some pretty weird definitions in it...
@@freedapeeple4049 So did my family.
We have emigrated by happenstance and our old dictionaries didn’t make it. It is not the same experience with online dictionaries... You get far more information, but the pleasure of flipping through the pages of a dictionary and finding new words is lost.
Look around you on this platform to see etymology happening in real time. TH-cam censorship, at the behest of their CEO Susan, is creating etymology right before our eye. For example, words like (un)alive are now becoming part of the lexicon among younger viewers.
I also experience the later half. So frustated when i cant find the true root of some commonly used word lol
When I was kid, any time I had to look a word up in the dictionary, I would learn at least one other word from the same page that I hadn't previously known. When I had kids, I had them do the same.
So happy for etymology anything!
"What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once" - Ocean Vuong
Ah! But we call a mass murderer a monster and conversely a funny puppet (cookie) monster.
Philologist: Person who studies words that make people laugh out loud.
and whenever they speak people always feel inclined to say Gazoontite
People who study Dr. Phil
I've been a bit of an amateur etymology nerd for years. I can't begin to tell you how pleased I am that PBS have finally started a show about it.
Having grown up with mild dyspraxia, I found it very difficult to memorise the spellings of so many words. Learning the relationships that words have with each other and their histories brings them to life and gives me an understanding of how words should be spelled and what they might mean.
e.g. privilege has French origins (explaining the "ege" at the end instead of "idge" or "edge") and is a cognate of private, privy and legal - meaning it is a law that only applies to a select number of people.
yep I'm slowly gonna be invested in Linguistics with how my social media has been going lately.
If you ask me, that's an investment that won't ever lose value! :) - Dr. B
I've been studying it for almost 20 years as a hobby
@@pbsstoried I mean look at a verity of the burger the McDonald's across the world none two taste the same or noodles became spaghetti best estimate for why PIE and rest of world languages popped could be trade via the silk road both water and sea
@@pbsstoried biology and linguistics is one hell of a resumé
@@pbsstoried you should do a colab with Name Explain.
I'VE BEEN SEARCHING AND WAITING FOR AN ETYMOLOGY CHANNEL!
Alliterative is a good etymology channel!
Name Explain is also good
same. I've been using wiktionary like an animal this whole time
So that's where Dr. Z's show name comes from. Very cool! :D
"Wait, it was PIE all along?"
"Always has been"
Serious tough, its almost a cospiracy theory, they're behind everything lol
No, just most languages in Europe and India. This is not hard to understand
i mean, they're the theoretical precursors to most of european and asian cultures
@@bobthabuilda1525 well, as they affected most european languages, due to colonialism they sadly affected most the entire world
@@Kuwagumo Yes, sadly that is true 😞
Here I thought it was Agatha All Along.
Arguably, word origins are incredibly important. When learning English, it is super helpful to mentally map the potential origins of a word to help identify its spelling and its meaning.
I LOVE stuff like this! I have always enjoyed seeing the connection between words and other languages.
Sounds like we have another certified word nerd here! - Dr. B
There is something truly wonderful in the utter human reality of how Dr. Z presents her family tree of the word monster so fluidly and then at the very end trips over a few words ... and simply smiles about it. It makes this whole video seem much more human. I love etymology, and I think it offers much more to critically understanding certain aspects of this world than it is credited with.
I wonder what it would be in English if it weren't for the Norman invasion... We use Monster in German, too, but we also have 'Ungeheuer' as a synonym, which also means 'uncanny'
We (Danes) also use monster and uhyr.
Monster in German and Danish comes from English. Ungeheuer and uhyre are the original words for it before the import.
There actually is groups that have developed a fo of English that has removed (or at least attempted too) the romantic elements in English. You could google it if you’re interested.
Ooh, yes, they're really neat! One example I remember seeing one of them use was that while the word "sunshade" hasn't got that newer Norman/French/Latin influence in it, the word "umbrella" does (you guys may remember the words "umbra" and "penumbra" from school, being the Latin names for parts of a shadow).
And it's weird because they're basically the same thing, aren't they? Like a sun umbrella, and a rain umbrella.
And yet, the one that came down without that Romanticized influence is basically just a portmanteau of two existing English words, which means that without that Norman influence, we probably ought to be reaching for our "rainshades". :D
@@KryssLaBryn The French have the words "parapluie" and "parasol", the latter of which has been adopted into English unchanged.
I’ve been on this earth for 37 years and I’ve been learning with PBS the whole time.
I'm so excited to see this kind of language content on Storied! Linguistics is my favorite thing to nerd out over and I love the content that Storied produces, so this is the best of both worlds for me.
Etimology is so cool, can't wait to see more content from Otherwords!
Look around you on this platform to see etymology happening in real time. TH-cam censorship, at the behest of their CEO Susan, is creating etymology right before our eye. For example, words like (un)alive are now becoming part of the lexicon among younger viewers.
Many years ago (ten-ish?), when I learned that _Monstrum_ was originally meant for creatures born with abnormalities, I adopted monsters as my Pride identity symbol (I was born premature, with cerebral palsy). And now, I like to remind people that blaming the *monster* for bringing bad luck is like blaming a *stop sign* for the car crash you get into when you drive past one...
i love your last sentence
@@mch7933 Thanks!
that's a great analogy
@@alkaliaurange Thanks. It has served me in good stead. :-)
Capri, as I recall, is used in English as the word cover. We get words like cap and cobra and the Arab word gaber (means grave). It ultimately means: to bridge or leap. The idea is the same, “to cover a space”. In astrology we get Capricorn; the goat that leaps or leaping horn.
In Dutch the word "monster" not only means "fearful, hideous creature", as in English, but also "sample" or "specimen", as in "bloedmonster": "blood sample". In the latter case it comes from the Latin "monstrare", "to show", which also occurs in the word "demonstrate".
I love that a series like this exists. Etymology has always been something that was always just fun to me. Do we absolutely need to know this information to survive? No, but it’s interesting to know about history
Etymology can help you deal with many technical terms in English, and thus to sort out whether someone is lying to you, which is quite important nowadays.
Etymology also reveals history and culture, which may be important to the survival of societies rather than to individual survival.
So many cultures with so many mythology’s imagine what terrifying beasts that were imagined now lost to the sands of time Before the written word
Yes, if only we could somehow tap into that
I love to share these with my daughter, seeing strong, intelligent, well spoken woman thriving helps her in her passions in life. Thank you ladies
Second-year middle school French teacher here. I give a lesson every six weeks on why English and French share so much vocab and we focus on the Norman invasion and the theory of Indo-European languages. Seeing this from one of my favorite sources was extremely reaffirming. My nerdiness is really paying off!
The content in this presentation is so good that it is um beyond words. The style for this presentation is so clever as it highlights so much data.
I was getting 70s PBS show vibes from the graphics, and that was before the Sesame Street clip was shown. Thanks to all of you for maintaining this channel
Always loved exploring etymology. Sometimes, a casually spoken word will have me day dreaming for a minute about where that word came from. There is so much insight into culture and history from the study of word origins. Glad to have found a channel that goes deeply into it.
This channel just keeps getting better.
I look forward to see what words you trace around the Halloween season. Witch, horror, demon. All probably have their own unique paths through history and to our modern day vocabulary.
Here's are some clews to start you on your journey of discovery: witch is cognate with "life," horror is associated with hair and demon is related to genius.
0:14 as far as YOUR brain is concerned, my brain does think about origins and etymology most of the time.
PBS has to stop parading out incredibly intelligent and charming professors, there are only so many hours in the day to watch!
You're the only Doctor I would love to visit even when I don't have to, Dr. Z.
Etinmology: The study of the historic roots of words spoken by two headed giants.
Goo goo g'joob (good job).
Remember, two heads, two T's, so "Ettin"
Entymology: The study of the historic ROOTS of words spoken by living trees.
I can't wait to be able to teach high school! This channel has so many useful videos when it come to teaching literature, history and so many other things!
Language sure can be a monster.
Wait until you encounter Finnish, a behemoth with around 15 cases depending on how you're counting
every second of this was perfect. My new fav show.
The fact that this exists now makes me so happy! Thank you!
I would have enrolled in the linguistics class had I known they had pie.
😅
You could also have enrolled in the topology course and gotten a donut, and its topological equivalent, a coffee cup with a handle!
I'm a happy owner of PBS's "The story of English" on DVD and its companion book. Languages are living, evolving things. It's fascinating to learn about the origins and history of a word, slang phrase or saying.
I have the book and would love to acquire the video. I've watched it several times and never tire of the presentation by the much missed Robin MacNeil.
Words evolve so much over time. What one meaning can completely change in due time. Monster falls on that word territory then.
As a linguist, I'm excited to see where this channel goes!
So glad you started this new show! I loved the idea said in the video: through evolution of words you can see the evolution of human thought. And at the end there still are things that make us think and feel today just as they did thousands of years ago. Somehow it feels very heartwarming and hopeful. Thank you for such an amazing video (as always with Storied)!
as someone who loves looking up etymology and word origins on like, a daily basis... i am SO excited for otherwords and loved this video!!!!
Storied knows how to get viewers to check out their new show: have Dr. Z do the intro and put her name in the title 😅 nice new show, by the way. Really interesting!
As a language lover, student of sanskrit, and amateur linguist, I'm happy and eager to see what channel will bring forward.
So stoked for this new series!!
This series launching just as i decided to take a sociolingustics seminar at university is very helpful
Can't wait to learn more about how a word is formed and where it is originated from.
Storied is one of the best channels on this platform
This is an incredible idea for a series and I'm excited to see more! Etymology has always fascinated me but I've never found videos on it quite like this.
It's like this new show was made specifically for ME. I'm always so fascinated by the etymology of words and phrases. I'm so excited for this series!!
when I hear monster, I now think of my kitty.
She's a teeny monster who likes biting guests, tearing around the house and being a holy terror.
What a great idea for a channel! So glad Sci Show sent me over!
This was incredibly informative. I never considered etymology to be so interesting, and now I'm curious to the history of other words now.
Look around you on this platform and witness etymology in real time. TH-cam censorship, at the behest of their CEO Susan, is creating etymology right before our eye. For example, words like (un)alive are now becoming part of the lexicon among younger viewers.
Many people get interested in linguistics and etymology by first dealing with culture and history, which are things that answer a lot of questions about society.
This is one of the reasons I’d love to be a kid again. Didn’t have the internet growing up, but had the public library and our big encyclopedia collection at home. My mind was always moving. I was one of the ones who always wondered where words originated from. Good video.
Oh, wow! I like this new show a lot, and Dr Erica is a fantastic host! Very much looking forward to future episodes. :)
Dr. Z's eyes are so mesmerising! and also I can tell that she is reading from a prompter. I have never been able to notice that before with others
Immediately, the song Monster by Lady Gaga got stuck in my head. 😂
Meg and Dia for me
You WROTE Monster by Lady Gaga but my brain played Judas😩😩😩🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This content keeps me grounded during my emotional struggles. I can't explain why, but something about the presentation is very comforting
This is fun video
An etymology for swear words
Rude but it would be interesting learn
Definitely something to consider! - Dr. B
Like etymology of the f-slur for men loving men, same as the meaning for the misnomer that comes from the "sin of Sodom" being all about contentment and consent.
Villain, nice, polite, are not what you'd expect but twisting a perception of reality is how fascism works.
There is a book on this by Ashley Montagu called 'The Anatomy of Swearing'
@@pbsstoried Could you do monstrum episodes about Manticore and Basilisk/Cocatrice in future? :)
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Wow. The second presenter.. her hair is SOOOOO clean. Normally I would never make a comment like that, but it really stands out. It's pristine.
Awesome content, when I was on Preparatory School I loved Ethimology class, really was one of my favorites along with Ethic and Logic classes. Greetings from Mexico.
Oh! I am so glad this exists! I do not think etymology is to be dismissed. It's part of our history just as history is part of our language. It shows where we come from and where we might go. I cannot wait to see and hear more from both of these beautiful bad-ass ladies!
Maybe you can do a video on the jotnar of norse mythology on monstrum
Just a thought though
Learning word origins is great because the background can provide further insight regarding the settings some words were first used, as well as additional connotation which is really huge when you want to get a point across.
I’ve been told to say CrashCourse sent me 👋
Omg I love your username and picture! One of the most underrated shows ever!
I love this!!! I can't wait to hear more from Dr Brozovsky!
**Historian sighs in happy**:D
Well well well. A new show about my primary nerdy interest, on a channel I already sub to. How convenient for me! Nice to meet you Dr. Brozovsky!
It's meant to be! - Dr. B
I'm probably on etymonline.com at least once a day on average. Once a word has caught my attention I have to know where it came from and how we ended up using it in English the way we do. Some of the journeys words have been on are epic. 'Toilet' is a good example lol. That word is like that friend you have who has worked in a dozen or so totally unrelated professions over the years.
I had no idea that site existed, thank you!
@@jflopezfernandez My pleasure!
PBS Linguistics? I'm here for this.
Kind of like the tower of Babylon. And not surprisingly, seemingly unrelated languages such as Serbian and Persian have a huge number of almost identical words.
I wish I could like and favourite this twice. I have interests in anthropology, linguistics, etymology, mythology, pop culture and horror. I am soooo hyped for this new series, I already LOVE Monstrum, so let's goooooooooo
That was fantastic and fascinating. I'm going to love this new addition to one of my already favorite channels!
This is one of the reasons I loved studying linguistics back in the day. Thanks for adding this to the family of shows.
that thing about the animal to meat translation is so cool!!!!! i cant wait for more of this series!!!!!!
OMG. This show is my newly discovered "nerd-zone"!! I'm loving it. I hope the future episodes goes deeper into tackling the syntaxes of different languages. Ooooh. I'm a nerd.
Ever since yall announced this series I've been eagerly waiting for the first episode to come out. This did not disappoint!!! So excited to see more
Oooh, my linguistic history fangirl self is SOOOO excited for this new show!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm a word nerd, so I'm delighted to hear about this new addition to Storied. I enjoyed your tracing the word Monster back to its origins. As in one metaphor for tracing word origins, from a fruit back to its flower > tree > sapling > sprout > roots > and seed. Etymology is fun. Thanks
Dear Dr. Brosovsky, you are a great addition to the channel!
Etymology is a fascinating field. It reveals so much about the human mind and how humans express their thoughts.
I truly love this show; thank you for making it! There isn't another show about etimology on TH-cam. I really look forward to each new episode! Love you doctors!!!
I am going to love this series. Wow.
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes - Did I say THANK-YOU for this video specifically and OTHERWORDS in general? Because THANK-YOU!!! (I'm putting a good word in with Santa for you.)
I'm busy writing a story about a monster and Im realising that I've been using this character as a vehicle to express things that I wish I was taught as a child. Very very interesting. great video!
This series is going to become one of my favorite things ever.
Storied is expanding!
Oh this series was made for me! I hope you do an episode on the word "literally:" I think it's fascinating how we make a link between physical reality and emphasis, and how the former is related to the written word.
The animal words fact blew my mind - I've always thought that was such a weird point in English. Sooo excited to see where this show goes. I love etymology!
Welcome and all the best for your channel! For years I observe an increasing attitude towards language that tries to handle meaning like numbers and reduces words into beds of Procrustes. I think as a result, people loose the ability to understand allusions, connotations, irony, metaphors, in other words (pun absolutely intended ;-) they loose the richness of human communication. People who feel insecure in their communication are afraid of communication. They seek simple communication. (Together with other factors!) that can mean conspiracy theories and religious and political extremism. Your channel is a wonderful way to offer enjoyable and stimulating experiences with language!
I love this new show so much! I geek out over entomology and history.
Yeah, I like insects too...
What a valuable video series this is. Words are so basic to our culture that we seldom question them. I am so pleased to see 'Otherwords' appear that it was a no-brainer addition to my subscription list. Thanks again.
Marrying good animations/well presented graphics with a good presenter is bound to attract attention. PBS seems to fit hand in glove with TH-cam. Subscribed.
I need a million more episodes of this, thanks.
Great video, I'm glad you went down the path of etymology (and historical linguistics!)
Just two corrections:
- Whenever you show a word that is reconstructed (= theoretically existing), you should mark it with a * sign in front of it. So it should be *men- for P.I.E.
- Vulgar Latin did not *mix* with Gaulish (mixing would result in a pidgin or a creol), rather Gaulish has *influenced* Vulgar Latin. Mixing two languages is different from languages being cognates with each other (descending from the same ancestor). I always hear people not familiar with linguistic get confused about it...
Thank you again for this intriguing video! :)
Welcome aboard Dr. B! I'm excited for this new addition to one of my favorite channels (and it's always a treat to see Dr. Z make a guest appearance with some Monstrum content in one of the other Storied videos).
Thinking about the "monster/mind" connection reminds me of something I read recently in a book by Robert Sapolsky about how our brains appear to not only be able to think in symbols and metaphors, including words, but on some level will often view the symbol as being the same as the thing itself. So the word for a monster can conjure up some of the same feelings as actually encountering something monstrous.
Thanks, I'm very excited to be here! Do you happen to have the name of that book? (My best guess is Behave, based on a list of his book titles.) I live for book recommendations! - Dr. B
@@pbsstoried Yup, Behave! It was really enjoyable and he did a very good job at explaining things in a way a non-neuroscientist could follow. A friend of mine suggested it to me and I would definitely second her recommendation.
@@mattdeblassmusic Just reserved it at my local library; thanks for the recommendation! - Dr. B
Eptimology and the study of monsters in one TH-cam video? Yes, please! Well written and fun to watch.
The animation at the beginning of this is awesome
Same observation! 😊
have a deep love of this study and a child-like fascination with the paths that word origin reveals.
In the mind of man
a world in the word.