• hakase@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    “Mead/honey” followed basically the exact same path, except for the final borrowing of the Japanese word back into English.

    Proto-Indo-European *medhu > English “mead”
    Proto-Indo-European *medhu > Tocharian B (not A) “mit” > Old Chinese “mit” > Japanese “hachi-mitsu” (bee-honey)

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    5 months ago

    Cool post though I’m not fully onboard with the map implying the modern words came into form in America.