a vocab word relevant to today's sudden surge of hope and love of nostalgia.
from servus meaning a servant for writing which is in turn from manus meaning "a hand"
À la recherche du temps perdu.
Is that so? How cool. I do love me some linguistic nerddom…
For a variety of reasons I study the etymology of words.
It’s a fun study, for sure.
It is like study Chinese characters, it tells some about where the word came from.
O yeah good point! The word itself is a story.
from servus meaning a servant for writing which is in turn from manus meaning "a hand"
À la recherche du temps perdu.
Is that so? How cool. I do love me some linguistic nerddom…
For a variety of reasons I study the etymology of words.
It’s a fun study, for sure.
It is like study Chinese characters, it tells some about where the word came from.
O yeah good point! The word itself is a story.