the ancient word for a kind of cord made from the insides of animals grew into our word yarn

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Channel first turns up in English back around the year 1300

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after the Greek concept of chaos, except transcribed to the word gas instead of chaos

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the word tennis comes from the French word tenir meaning ?to hold? or ?to take.?

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town meant ?an enclosed space? and was more likely to apply to a farm

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in Hindi and even more earlier in Sanskrit "jungle" didn?t denote a rainforest but a dry desert

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"thrill" is related to "drill" and "avatar" and "nostril."

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an earlier existence of the word curry meant to ?brush? or ?rub down,?

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the words "snake" and "serpent" slither back to a root meaning of something that creeps and crawls

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it turns out that the typo "pubic" has roots deep in the etymology of the word "public"

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the reason the cooking method is called poaching is the yolk appears to be in a little bag

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grotesque is ?from a grotto? just as picturesque is ?from a picture?

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the parent word was parricus?a Latin word meaning ?fence?

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Medieval scholars read this word adamant in those older documents and tried to figure out what exactly the authors were trying to get at.

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Antique is from the Latin antiquus, meaning ?former? or ?ancient?

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a pixel (or pix-el) is literally and figuratively a "picture element."

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etymologists aren?t sure if "shoe" goes back to a word related to walking or a different word meaning ?to cover?

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the doodle you do with a pencil could possibly be named because it's seen as foolish

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from Dutch and German. In a number of Germanic languages snoepen means to "buy candy"

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"pal" in Romani had been "phral" thought to be related to a Sanskrit word meaning ?brother.?

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