cobragt4001
Banned
So I decided to start studying etymology for personal enjoyment. Some words that we use in our day to day lives actually have different meanings than what we use them for. A nice person in today's world would mean some agreeable, kind or pleasing. The original meaning of nice in older languages is foolish, ignorant or gullible. Violence is used as a description of an agressive person but studying the word you see it means distortion of facts and meaning.
Lately I've been studying the word black and its root. In Old English black is blac or blaec; in Middle English black is blak; in Old High German black is blah. All of the words presented seem to share the same define which is pale, bleak or bleach. So does black actually mean pale? I searched older langauges for the equivalent of dark or what we call black in today's times and found that in Middle English it's swart; in Old English it's sweart; in Proto-Germanic it's swartaz; in Proto-Indo-European it's swordo. I find all of this interesting that a connotative thought of a particular word can become its denotation while surpressing the word's true understanding.
Lately I've been studying the word black and its root. In Old English black is blac or blaec; in Middle English black is blak; in Old High German black is blah. All of the words presented seem to share the same define which is pale, bleak or bleach. So does black actually mean pale? I searched older langauges for the equivalent of dark or what we call black in today's times and found that in Middle English it's swart; in Old English it's sweart; in Proto-Germanic it's swartaz; in Proto-Indo-European it's swordo. I find all of this interesting that a connotative thought of a particular word can become its denotation while surpressing the word's true understanding.