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Last Notes npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Hi followers, I'm currently migrating to mastodon.social, because toot.community will stop existing on October 28th. If you get a follow from @nprofile…0lyp, it's me! npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Kom morgenmiddag naar mijn quiz-lezing in Eindhoven voor verrassende taalweetjes én een kans op het winnen van mijn boek 'Woord voor woord'! npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘to learn’ is part of a big and diverse word family. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Heb je zondagmiddag 18 oktober vrij en hou je van quizzen, taal en boeken winnen? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Op 5 november komt het uit: mijn nieuwe boek 'Winter vol woorden'! 😃 npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Omdat de meeste tooltjes er niks van bakken, besloot ik tegen mijn principes in toch Google AI maar eens te vragen welk lettertype voor mijn boek 'Die goeie ouwe taal' gebruikt is. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Vanmiddag een mooie uitdrukking uit Loon op Zand gehoord: npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk When I posted my infographic about ‘to wait’ and ‘wachten’ on Sunday, many people asked if the German word ‘warten’ with its identical meaning is etymologically related to this family as well. Nope, not in the slightest! npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The verb ‘to wait’ comes from Old French, but that language in turn borrowed it from the ancestor of Dutch ‘wachten’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Sometimes, borrowing a word can save it from extinction. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk When you say ‘famly’, ‘vulnrable’ or ‘genral’, you’re performing syncope: deleting an unstressed vowel from the interior of the word, losing an entire syllable in the process. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Volgend jaar brengen grafisch vormgever en kaartenmaker Frans van der Vleuten en ik een boek uit met 100 kaarten over alledaagse taal en cultuur in Nederland – en daar kun jij aan bijdragen! npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk A diabolical word preserved its form due to the church. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘sure’ has the same origin as ‘secure’: Latin ‘sēcūrus’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk @nprofile…qtk2 Nice! Where is it spoken? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk What do ‘Miranda’, ‘legend’, and ‘agenda’ have in common? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Beautiful hasn’t always been ‘beautiful’. In Old English, one of the words for it was ‘sċēne’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘island’ contains the same element as ‘Jersey’, ‘Scandinavia’, and ‘Batavia’. This element stems from Proto-Germanic *agwī, a word meaning “land in or close to a body of water”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Als Albert Heijn aandacht had besteed aan een grammaticA fantasticA, dan was dit wannabe-Italiaans niet zo'n fiascO fantasticO geweest. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘scissors’ is completely unrelated to the words for this tool in the sister languages of English, such as German ‘Schere’ and Dutch ‘schaar’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Germanic ancestor of ‘thing’ and its cognates, such as German ‘Ding’ and Swedish ‘ting’, meant “folk assembly”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk It won’t be too big of a surprise that the words ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word: ‘of’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘foreign’ is etymologically related to ‘door’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Dat is goed. Ik zal "MIJN APOTHEEK" wel raadplegen. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Spanish way of saying “from where” is ‘de donde’. However, to speakers living a thousand years ago, that would’ve meant “from from from where”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk ‘Chez moi’ is the French way of saying “at my place”. The preposition ‘chez’ has a fascinating origin: it comes from the same word as Spanish ‘casa’ (house): Latin ‘casa’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘quick’ has many surprising relatives. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘young’ has surprising cognates in other languages in its Indo-European family. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The French words ‘est’ and ‘ouest’ look a lot like English ‘east’ and ‘west’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The French words ‘nord’ and ‘sud’ look a lot like English ‘north’ and ‘south’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Spanish words ‘primavera’ (spring) and ‘verano’ (summer) both derive from Latin ‘vēr’ (spring). npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘town’ shares its origin with German ‘Zaun’ (fence) and Dutch ‘tuin’ (garden), even though their forms and meanings are quite different. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Over the past few days, I’ve created two infographics on early Germanic loanwords from Latin: one on construction, with words such as ‘kitchen’ and ‘street’, and one on food, with ‘cheese’, ‘butter’ and others. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk 2/ npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk After my infographic about words such as ‘wall’, ‘street’, and ‘kitchen’, which are very early Germanic borrowings from Latin, here’s a second one, this time about food. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Words such as 'museum', 'formula' and 'ratio' instantly give away their Latin origin, but did you know 'wall', 'street', and 'kitchen' come from Latin too? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk ‘Probably’ is often pronounced /probly/. The syllable ‘ba’ is deleted because it’s followed by another syllable starting with a b. This is called haplology – or haplogy if you will. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Gisteravond presenteerde Kristel Doreleijers haar boek 'Superbrabants'. Ik was erbij. Van tevoren had ik het boek al mogen lezen – met heel veel plezier! npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘queen’ is distantly related to the first part of ‘gynaecology’ and the second part of ‘misogyny’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘dame’ is part of a huge word family. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘king’ has a fascinating story to tell. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Voor een tekstje voor kinderen in groep 3 zat ik te worstelen met eenlettergrepige woorden met een f. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘fabric’ is a notorious false friend of Spanish ‘fábrica’: a fabric is a material, while a fábrica is a factory. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Old English word for a flower was ‘blōsma’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk It will come as no surprise that ‘to live’ is etymologically related to ‘life’ and ‘alive’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk 2/ npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Eggs are oval. The word ‘egg’ is even etymologically related to ‘oval’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The geat were eating nit under the each. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The words ‘power’, ‘host’, ‘potential’, ‘impotent’, ‘possible’, ‘posse’, and ‘to possess’ all contain the same Proto-Indo-European word: *pótis, meaning “master”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Zondagmiddag vertellen Kristel Doreleijers en ik over de taal van verschillende generaties. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘rich’ is related to ‘regal’ and ‘royal’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The numbers ‘twenty’ to ‘ninety’ end in ‘-ty’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English verb ‘to see’ is very distantly related to the verb ‘to sue’ – and also to ‘segue’, ‘second’ and ‘sequence’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The French word ‘aujourd’hui’ (today) consists of four words: ‘au’ (on the), ‘jour’ (day), ‘de’ (of), and ‘hui’ (today). It was formed in Middle French during the late Middle Ages. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk When I opened a pdf containing a scanned 505-page volume of a Spanish etymological dictionary, Adobe Acrobat Reader recommended that I "save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant". 🫠 npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk When I published yesterday's infographic about the origin of the word 'friend', people were surprised that it's related to the first part of 'Friday' and its cognates, such as German 'Freitag' and Dutch 'vrijdag'. As my graphic explained, this part stems from the Proto-Germanic goddess name *Frijjō, which in Old Norse became 'Frigg'. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The verb ‘to worry’ has some surprising family members. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘outrage’ consists of neither ‘out’ nor ‘rage’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The brown word family on the right has many more members we know and love. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Old English had two words for “knife”: ‘cnīf’ (the ancestor of ‘knife’) and ‘meteseax’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘phantom’ stems from the same root as ‘photo’, ‘phase’, ‘phenomenon’, ‘fantasy’, and ‘fancy’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘shirt’ has the same origin as ‘skirt’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Dutch words ‘zolder’ (“attic”) and ‘solarium’ (“tanning salon”) are doublets: they both stem from Latin ‘sōlārium’ (“roof terrace”). npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as Catalan ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk I’ve always found Portuguese a fascinating language. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Poverty can be quite a headache. That’s why ‘micragna’, the Italian descendant of Latin ‘hēmicrānia’ (migraine), evolved to mean “poverty”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are two different groups? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The French word ‘employer’ (to emploi) has the same origin as ‘impliquer’ (to imply). npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk A lot of English words ultimately stem from Latin. But did you know there are Latin words that ended up in English two times - in two different forms? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘whore’ is etymologically related to ‘charity’, ‘to caress’, and ‘to cherish’, as well as Romance words such as French ‘cher’ and Spanish ‘caro’, which mean “dear”. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Some people vocally oppose using ‘data’ and ‘panini’ as singular nouns, saying these words are plural because they come from Latin and Italian plural nouns. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk What’s the most succesful Germanic colour word? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Heel blij met Gaston Dorrens recensie van mijn nieuwe boek 'Woord voor woord: de verleden tijd van taal'! npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Wil je met Sinterklaas een taalliefhebber verrassen - of juist een taalliefhebber van iemand máken? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘blue’ is a horse of a different colour. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘yellow’ is related to Dutch ‘geel’ and German ‘gelb’, but their ends are quite different. Why? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘brief’ means “short”, while German ‘Brief’ and Dutch ‘brief’ mean “letter” – and yet they have the same origin. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word ‘to hear’ stems from the same root as ‘acoustic’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘word’ is etymologically related to the word ‘verb’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Afgelopen zaterdag om vier uur is mijn nieuwe boek 'Woord voor woord: de verleden tijd van taal' officieel gelanceerd op het Taalfeest in TivoliVredenburg. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk @nprofile…tcx3 @nprofile…qun5 npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Morgen, vooralsnog tussen 12.15 en 12.45 uur, vertel ik over mijn nieuwe boek 'Woord voor woord: de verleden tijd van taal' bij Frits Spits in De Taalstaat op NPO Radio 1. Uiteraard laten we allerlei verrassende taalweetjes langskomen. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Why do so many French words end in a silent x? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Dinsdag verschijnt mijn tweede boek, 'Woord voor woord: de verleden tijd van taal'. Daarin vind je onder andere 70 grote infographics. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word ‘male’ is etymologically related to ‘macho’, but it’s unrelated to ‘female’. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk @nprofile…tcx3 @nprofile…xeru @nprofile…raqw @nprofile…ts4g @nprofile…6ekj npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Italian is a weird language when it comes to its word for "us". npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk What's your *alīnabugô? npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The English word 'fee' has the same ancestor as German 'Vieh', Dutch 'vee', and Swedish 'fä', which all mean 'cattle'. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk 'To load' isn't etymologically related to German 'laden' and Danish 'lade', even though these words look so similar and mean "to load" too. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Certain speakers of English don't pronounce 'white' as WITE but as HWITE. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word 'pope' comes from a word meaning "daddy". npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The Spanish words 'año' ('year') and 'España' ('Spain') contain the letter ñ, which is called eñe. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The word 'god' underwent a gender change. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk English 'wood', Dutch 'woud', and German 'Wald' can all mean "forest". npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk 2/ npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk The words 'fiction' and 'dough' derive from the same root. npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Sueño & sueño: sleep & dream npub13azglv6csfulqza2yztjpl00n2r2ff83f3qq2f590uf8j09vfulqag8k34 Yoïn van Spijk Microsoft vertaalt zijn apps vrolijk met machinevertaling, want wat maakt het ook allemaal uit?
