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2025-10-22

LingComm IRL with Skeptics — Interview with Lee Murray
lingcomm.org/2025/09/30/lingco

This is the third post in the #LingComm IRL series, it's growing into a really great resource.

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2025-09-24
Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2025-09-17

The surprisingly connected origins of "astrology", "stellar", "disaster", and "star".

#etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #astrology #disaster #stellar

youtube.com/shorts/wypsyFA5ngc

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2025-08-18

Today (Aug 18) is #HeliumDiscoveryDay marking the eclipse observation by Pierre Jules Janssen, who along with Joseph Lockyer is credited with the discovery of helium, so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is HELIUM/SOLAR/SUN #wotd #helium #solar #sun #scicomm #lingcomm

During a solar eclipse in 1868 astronomer Joseph N. Lockyer (among others) discovered the element helium by studying the light of the sun, and etymologically this makes sense. Sun comes from Old English sunne, from Proto-Germanic *sunnon (related to *sunthaz “sun-side” eventually giving us the word south), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(u)wen- a variant form of *sawel- “sun”. The variant form *s(e)wol- led to Latin sol “sun” from which we get solar. The suffixed form *sawel-yo- led to Greek helios “sun”, and it’s from that Greek word that Lockyer coined the term helium.

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