A very special Christmas etymology

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @shanedemeulenaere5792
    @shanedemeulenaere5792 2 дні тому +10

    Language change is so fascinating. I recently read a comment about how Latin (book Latin) may owe a large part of it's historical steadiness, and in some part then it's usefulness, to the fact that it wasn't a 'living' language undergoing all of these changes. It was (and perhaps still is to some extent) outside of linguistic time.

  • @TerrasScourge
    @TerrasScourge 2 дні тому +5

    I was always confused as to why we pronounce “Christmas” with a monophthong but “Christ” with a diphthong.

    • @ghenulo
      @ghenulo 21 годину тому

      The same reason that we pronounce "sphere" as /ˈsfɪɚ/ but "spherical" as /ˈsfɛɹɪkəl/, I'd imagine.

  • @carlinberg
    @carlinberg День тому +2

    Great etymology deep dive! I've always wondered about Christ/messiah but for some reason never looked it up 😅 Happy Little Christmas Eve as we say on the 23rd in southern Scandinavia!

  • @Romanophonie
    @Romanophonie 2 дні тому +3

    Fascinating! Could you explain why the final /a/ in Latin "missa" becomes an /e/ in Kentish Old English, and subsequently, in West Saxon Old English? Iċ þancie þē!

    • @hive_indicator318
      @hive_indicator318 2 дні тому

      I can read the last sentence, and I only watched the video on the first chapter of his textbook! I'm so chuffed

  • @Ryan_Kaufman
    @Ryan_Kaufman 2 дні тому

    Love this kinda stuff, thank you!!!

  • @Ptaku93
    @Ptaku93 2 дні тому

    Merry Christmas!

  • @eunoiavision7567
    @eunoiavision7567 2 дні тому +1

    Simon Roper sent me. or should I say, Roperum Simonus missa me. LOL. Just guessing here with my new found etymology.

  • @GershomEmos
    @GershomEmos 2 дні тому +1

    איך האָב זײער ליב געהאַט אַז דו האָסט געניצט דעם אַשכּנזישן אַרױסרײד. ש'כּוח!

  • @angelageisler8806
    @angelageisler8806 2 дні тому

    Thank you for all this wonderful information! BLITHE GEOLA!

  • @sterlingdafydd5834
    @sterlingdafydd5834 2 дні тому

    So you never really told us how to say “Merry Christmas” in Anglo Saxon..!!!

  • @ConciseCabbage
    @ConciseCabbage 2 дні тому

    Old English looks and sounds quite a bit like Latin tbh.

    • @cadian101st
      @cadian101st День тому +1

      As related languages go back in time they tend to resemble each other more

    • @josenoesantiago9175
      @josenoesantiago9175 18 годин тому

      this is due to protoindoeurpeanization

  • @fekixrudolfbischof
    @fekixrudolfbischof День тому

    Wow, what a handsome you are! ❤ cute! also the beard.

  • @DarkLight748
    @DarkLight748 2 дні тому

    You didn't pronounce Christmas differently at the end, dislike dislike dislike.

  • @strike6621
    @strike6621 2 дні тому

    First!!!!!!!