3 Secrets Behind Common Household Objects
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- The names of everyday household items often have fascinating and peculiar origin stories that become obscured over time, gradually morphing into the common clichés we use without a second thought. Many of these names hold rich historical and linguistic tales, reflecting the evolution of language and culture.
Take the word "curtain," for example. Its roots can be traced back to the Latin word "cortina," which means "enclosure" or "court." Originally, "curtain" referred to a piece of fabric that enclosed or surrounded an area, much like the way a courtyard is an enclosed space within a building or complex. Over time, the word's meaning narrowed to specifically denote a piece of fabric used to cover windows or divide spaces, but its connection to the concept of an enclosed area remains embedded in its etymology.
Another intriguing example is "cabinet." This word derives from the Old French "cabine," meaning a small room or hut, and the diminutive suffix "-ette," indicating something smaller or lesser. So, "cabinet" essentially means a "little cabin." In the past, a cabinet was a small, private room where valuable items were stored. Today, we use "cabinet" to refer to a piece of furniture with shelves and drawers for storage, but the idea of a small, secure place for keeping important things is still inherent in the term.
This video looks at 3 examples of stories behind objects that have been lost to mindlessness. - Розваги
stove is also cognate with german Stube (f.) meaning living room in some dialects which is usually the place where the main heating place was
Stue is also living room in Norwegian. But it can also mean a (heated)"small house (like the Old English one). Sauna in Norwegian is badstue (bath "stove")
This word also got into Russia and became "izba". It's the traditional village house.
@@robertbrunworks even better in nynorsk, where it actually is 'stove', and 'badstove'
In older Swedish “stuva” meant heated room, but since most houses only had one room the modern cognate “stuga” means… cabin!
@@robertbrun there's also variants like Wohnstube (living room) or Badestube (bathroom) where -stube only means "room". funnily, these are the only examples where Stube fits as a suffix. (like there's no Küchenstube or something like that)
"Igt bro ima go down to the gym" : "you don't got one at home?"
I visited my friend in a rich neighbourhood and someone said this to me
@@chrisj5894Noooo 😭
@@chrisj5894lmao
Remove the "the" before gym and it'll make an even better pun.😂
They're from the future @@chrisj5894
In German an indoor cat is called a Stubentiger “stove tiger” 🐯
German is such an underrated language
@@migelos1188german sounds like someone is literally speaking gunpowder
@@Anonymous82819 Hey, German here. Incorrect, that's just when you hear exaggerated fake angry German. Our language can even be cute sometimes lmao
Did germany have tigers before cats? Were tigers found in germany?
@@shyamali8542 we never had Tigers, but Stubentiger sounds cute so that's probably all it was
English is my second language and I always mix up cabin and cabinet. Thank you for the explanation
😂 I can imagine the confusion it creates🤣. Can relate
Lmao, that's funny cause I'm at my cabin on vacation right now 😂. Cabins are like little homes
use cupboard instead
question: why is it mixed up for you? i'm just asking
@alexalekos lmao I would also add that it's pronounced like "cub-erd"
In ancient iran, there were structures named "يخچال" which means ice pit where people used to store ice and snow from the winter and mountains in pit for the summer. However, this name carried on, so now we call fridges "ice pit"
That kinda happened in English too. Fridges used to be called 'Ice boxes' because of how they would be cooled using cut ice. The name stuck around long after electric fridges became the norm and a lot of old people would still call it that
In chinese, we call a refrigerator 冰箱
冰means ice and 箱 means box
so a refrigerator is still an ice box in chinese
In Arabic it's "ثلاجة" which translates to "icer"
😭
fridge seems so boring now
Something I just realised: the german word Stövchen is like a tiny version of the English stove. It's even got the suffix "-chen" which signals a diminutive form.
(Stövchen is that thing where you light a candle and set your tea pot onto it to keep the tea warm)
🥺 So cute!
Stovu〜chan! 😊
Never heard of this but it sounds adorable
@@pauljacobs6478 @FreyasArts mäuschen 😊💀💀
@@DoshHetTödchen 🤗
My favorite one of these is “window.” Viking settlers in Britain had a small hole in a peaked roof for the smoke from the fireplace to escape called a vindeye. The North Atlantic wind “vind” blew across the hole and howled. The tiny hole was an “eye” like the eye of a needle. Over time the wind-eye got adopted into English as window and migrated from the roof to the side of the house and got bigger.
That is really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Other European countries took the Latin word for window which is fenestra. Interestingly english uses the word defenestration, and there is a government sponsored trade organisation for window fitters called FENSTA, which means Fenestration SelfAssessment Scheme
But sweedish didn't adopt it! We dont say vindöga, (windeye) we say fönster!
@@Cloud_that_looks_like_a_cat As a fellow Swede, it's spelled "Sweden", "Swede" and "Swedish".
@@marcbelisle5685 it's similar in polish, the polish word for a window "okno" originated from the word "oko" which means an eye.
When you were giving an example of the “ette” suffix my brain immediately went to “like a cigarette” 💀This is my sign to get help
Its Like a little cigar so still right
No but you're right!!
serviette
@@alexalekosA small towel that's served to you with food? ain't no way
It comes from French
Nigerians gotta be in the future, cuz those weights are already gyms to us..."im going to carry gym" 😂
So true my brother
In the US, "going to carry gym" would just mean that you're intending to do everything for the people at the workout facility, and don't have good grammar.
"Me going to carry gym! Them not strong like me"
Sir, I really like your content especially in this age where stupidity is “up front”. Content like this is so soothing because it reminds me that everyone isn’t foolish… I respect 🫡 your work!
People like this have always existed, it's only you that wasn't looking.
“I’m in a literal stove right now.”
LITERALLY-
Bro your a wizard. I really appreciate content like this thanks bruh
Same here. It's so interesting learning about why our language is the way it is.
I never know what to expect from your videos by they always leave me entertained and a little more knowledgeable.
I actually think it's so cute to think my dishes rest in their little cabin
Similarly, a jacket is a small jack, which was an elaborate garment of leather armor.
a Jack isn't leather armor though.
@@ravenn8600technically Jack could refer to leather armour.
"A jack of plate is a type of armour made up of small iron plates sewn between layers of felt and canvas. They were commonly referred to simply as a "jack" (although this could also refer to any outer garment)"
@@velvetbutterfly Is canvas and felt, leather for you?
@@ravenn8600 "any outer garment" includes leather armour. Unless you think armour is worn under clothes
Can you provide proof that the word "Jack" was ever used to refer to leather armor?
"Yo bro lets go to the stove"
"Where'd John go?"
"Oh, he's just in the stove"
Love the effort put into the editing
I wish this channel had longer format videos. Maybe just a compilation of the shorts
Some places in western Norway actually uses "stove" for living room and "etestove" (eating room) for dining room. I would however say it a little differently and stpell it like "stue". Both "stove" and "stue" actually have two syllables.
And in Dutch, they probably kept the word for what the English called a stove - fornuis.
Sounds like furnace - oven
Fornuis is not from English, it is from Old French fornaise, which is from Latin fornax.
The English word furnace is also from Old French fornaise and Latin furnax.
Also, calling a dining room 'etestove' or 'spisestue' is normal in all of Norway, not just some western parts. But maybe you were just talking about the spelling :)
bro is standing in front of the overlook hotel
Thank you for commenting this lmfao
I have noticed also
THANK you. I was like, what sort of Stephen King twist are we getting out of this video? Are cushions actually spooky? Does the word stove come from the Latin for haunted-ass hotel?
One of the traditional outbuildings on Norwegian farms was called an eldstove, eldstue or eldhus (“eld” means “fire”). It was kind of like a scullery separate from the main farmhouse, with a big open hearth even after more enclosed hearths with chimneys had become typical in the main house.
In English, some older generations still refer to the refrigerator as the “ice box” for similar reasons!
@@MsLemon42
Farms today don’t necessarily have one, but it’s one of the three fireplaces a farm may have according to a 13th century law (the other two being the one in the main house and one for drying grain and malt and such).
@@ragnkja How interesting! Thank you for sharing ^_^
Was the eldhus where food preparation and preservation was done in summer?
I love the little cardboard robot, he's a little goober
Yea i love the little guy :)
“Stove” and different variations of the word is actually used in Scandinavian languages for a living room. For example, In Faroese it’s “stova” and in Danish it’s “stue.” :)
By both original definition and use, cabinets are small rooms. This derives from the Italian gabinetto (n.), later forming into the typical government cabinet, from the basis of originally bring used to describe a small room.
The new Swedish prime minister is just on his way back from ikea.
He's working on his cabinet.
And now means toilet 🚽
The gym joke killed me
What was a joke? I think it was a scientific explanation or scientific thinking
Modern "gym", that means the place for sport, comes from the word that meant whole school that provided both education and sport exercises.
While being naked.
"Stove" is still used as a word for a small/simple house or a living room in Norwegian.
We know so much about the Romans we know their interior decorating habits and trends. Fascinating
cabinet is actually genuis 😭
"genuis"
This is a really good video. This is really accurate in linguistics and you're doing really good science. I love your label tags. Thank you so much or thanks so much for doing this. This is a favorite video now for me
U r the most interesting and unique UA-camr I have seen, how do u come up with such information and ideas about such videos, would love a little longer ones on each subjects. By the what do u do for a living?
I love this channel 😊
I’m really happy to learn the origin of cabinet. When I try to explain the Spanish suffix -it@, I always say it’s a cute small version, like kitchenette.
That cardboard robot was a nice touch
Little cardbot is my new favorite
Ive yet to see a video of yours I didnt think was super fucking cool and interesting.
Never stop man 👍
Im so glad of the growth of this Chanel. I love it.
I was waiting for cupboard.
cabinet being cabin-ette as in little cabin for your dishes is actually so cute :((
In Brazil we use the word "Kitinete" as a small apartment, usually with a kitchen, "all-room" and bathroom.
I like the idea of calling exercise equipment Gyms
Well, we do have home gyms that are basically just the "barbells" hooked up to a bunch of wires
(Your editing is both accessible and point, but also your voice is Attractive™.)
Turkish word for stove is "ocak" which comes from old Turkic word "odcak" ("od" means fire in old Turkic), means house or gathering place. Additionaly Turkish word for room is "oda" which evolved from the word "otağ". "Otağ" is the name of the big Turkic tents and its root is also the word "od" therefore "oda" means "the place where fire is burning".
My first language is Russian and here the word that is identical to cabinet (кабинет) means an office room for a one or a few people, for example, headmaster in your school has a кабинет.
And word similar to cabin (кабина) use only in meaning of driver's or pilot's place in a vehicle
May I just say, excellent choice of stock footage for the barbell 😂
Stove in Norwegian can mean a small house or a living room.
This series is amazing
And here I hoped to hear that the window is an eye to let fresh air in
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Cabinet come from the French word for cabin, “cabine”? Which is why it doesn’t use the “ette” suffix?
In Italian, you can refer to a "pillow" in two ways: "cuscino" or "guanciale." The secon way comes from "guancia," the Italian word for "cheek", so even in Italian it came from a part of the body 🤔
Interesting
The -et suffix is, I believe, the same with "helmet". Technically, a helmet only covers the top of the head. Helms are the ones that encapsulate the entire head and face area. Correct me if I'm wrong, anyone
You are correct on the helm + et. Helm was actually used before the 15th century to generally refer to something like a helmet. Old French borrowed the Germanic word and then added an -et suffix which also then was borrowed back into English helmet. So, we went from a helm (a helmet), to a helmet (a literal helmet-ette), from English, to French, then back to English again.
in my country, cocina is the kitchen, then the Horno (oven) with a stove above could be called cocina too
As a lover of etymology, I love these shorts!
Is that the Overlook hotel behind you?
You literally never miss.
pants were named after pantaloons which was a fashionable type of pant during the late 1700s akin to breeches but went down to or to just above the ankle
The stove one is very interesting! In Spanish, “cocina” is the word for kitchen, but also a stove, but also cuisine, and also the verb to cook!
Yeah man, I just lifted a gym. I had to add a few weights to the side to even be a challenge.
Wow, you're right...in Nigeria some people already call barbells, gyms....
In Spanish (or at least in Argentinian Spanish) "cocina" means both stove and kitchen.
But we do use the loan word kitchenette for a little kitchen. Similar to how we use living room, or much more frequently just "living", interchangeably with the native Spanish word "estar".
In Swedish a sauna is called a bastua: A bathing heated room
I went to a civil war reenactment and they told us that way back when this guy names Shrapnel invented a hollow canonball full of gunpowder that would explode when shot at an enemy and fire little bits of metal into their body. And the soldiers took to calling these bits of metal after their inventor, shrapnel.
In modern day Italian, the polite word for your butt is the same word as ‘to sit down’ so its basically ‘the sitter’
I'm loving this! Good show!
Lets go in the stove in medieval times 😊
Lets go in the stove today💀💀🔥🔥
In the uk cabinets are usually called cupboards with the p silent I wonder why though
It's because p and b are adjacent which makes them stop sounds.
they are in america too
Yeah and we don’t say stove either lol we use hob or cooker like “I’m gonna heat me beans up on the hob” or “I used the cooker to make tea” it depends on how specific you want to be lol
The tiny kitchen is lovely. 😊😊❤❤❤😅😅
Cupboards and cabinets are different, cupboards are usually built in structures usually for specific purposes like a food or clothes cupboards, a cabinet is usually free standing and usually more ornate for general storage or for displaying items.
That first building looks like the Timberline Lodge in Oregon
You're just marvelous.
Cabin-ette is actually adorable
Tbh I really prefer if they stuck with the standard of their prefix and suffix, cabinette is way more easier to understand than cabinet, even tho to learn each word is just merely about how often you're involved in using or hearing it used
Over here, on the saner side of the Atlantic, we have cupboards and cookers. Although, we do have cushions...
in ireland we call a cabinet a press, and we call the stove the cooker
The Dutch word for stove is 'fornuis', which is clearly related to the English 'furnace'. However 'stoven'(stewing) is something you do on the stove to create a 'stoof'(= stew. Pron. as 'stofe').
To go along with the cabinet, a cupboard is a board you put cups on.
Not to be confused with "stove", the past tense of "to stave", which reference staffs/poles/staves and are in phrases like "stave off" or "stove in".
Adding to the list, "cupboard" was a board/shelf you put your cup/s on
How informative.
Fun fact:
"Stove" is cognate with "tuba" (room) in Estonian (borrowed from Proto-Germanic).
The earlier meaning in Proto-Finnic most likely was a heated room.
Also present in other Finnic languages (tupa/tuba/tubā), usually with the meaning of a living room.
I love ur content..keep it up 👏
Coixí is pillow in Catalan...! In Spanish we use gabinete for cabinet, but in Castilian gabinete means exclusively an office, like a lawyer's office for example.
Similar to cabinet is etiquette. It originally means "small sign" and was used to teach the nouveau riche simple high society standards such as keep of the grace or which fork to use with which part of a meal. Over time the small signs stopped being needed and the lessons learned on them became the etiquette.
I like the little robot
I would love you to make a video for the word "drawer." I have heard so many people say drawer in so many different ways, and i wanna know what is the correct way.
It was a RANGE. Now commonly called stove TOP bc it’s just the top of the stove (OVEN).
Lots of cultures together then some words get used only in some places, or dropped.
Drain board from BOARD became countertop (from ?? ) became counter.
He gives some knowledge. What I focus on: aww what a cute robot😅
In my german dialect the traditional living rooms that have a big "stove" are still called "Stube" Probably same word origin :) I love it when I find words that have died in German but still exist in my dialect and in English. (Interestingly I am from a very southern German speaking area)
Stove is kinda the same word as Malay "dapur". We use it to refer to both the kitchen and the stove.
The stove one was interesting. In some (or all, idk) Spanish speaking countries, Cocina can mean both stove and kitchen.
Stove is related to Swedish "stuga" (in some dialects it's stuva) which means cottage.
Why are you appearing in front of the timberline lodge in Oregon aka the overlook hotel exterior for the movie the shining.
British slang they do say gym sometimes meaning weights "you bang gym bruv?" Is like asking "do you lift weights"
We already use the phrase home gym to describe weight or exercise equipment
Bro got some sun on his face
More of the tiny cardboard robot, please.
Guy at end of video: "I don't wanna know what that's called."
Me: "Pushin... cushion for the pushin'."
I just imagined someone reading this comment without watching the short. I swear I'm not high! 😂
#1 Cupboard
#2 cooker/hob
#3 pillow
Is that the Overlook hotel behind you? 👀
(The Timberline Lodge)
Cupboard- a piece of plank with cups on it. British
An electric cooker.
A kitchen sink
A wash basin for the bathroom.
“You might be surprised to know that this was not a stove. The room it was in, was-“
Me, clearly understanding the video: “A STOVETTE!!”