Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square204linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square204linkfedilink
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThis isn’t a common term but it’s something I recently learned that’s kind of funny - the country Timor-Leste is named from the Malay word timur, meaning “east”, and the Portuguese word leste, meaning “east”. So it’s literally “East East”.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThat’s bizarre …… during the independence violence the news always refers to it as East Timor, so it would have been more literally east east
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoHow is one language more literal than another?
This isn’t a common term but it’s something I recently learned that’s kind of funny - the country Timor-Leste is named from the Malay word timur, meaning “east”, and the Portuguese word leste, meaning “east”. So it’s literally “East East”.
That’s bizarre …… during the independence violence the news always refers to it as East Timor, so it would have been more literally east east
How is one language more literal than another?