Yoïn van Spijk

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The Spanish way of saying “from where” is ‘de donde’. However, to speakers living a thousand years ago, that would’ve meant “from from from where”.
In Old Spanish, “from where” was simply ‘onde’, a descendant of Latin ‘unde’. However, this word would end up getting reinforced by ‘de’ (“from”) twice because of an interesting series of ambiguities.
Click my new infographic to see how it happened.

206 views The Spanish way of saying “from where” is ‘de donde’. However, to speakers living a thousand years ago, that would’ve meant “from from from where”. In Old Spanish, “from where” was simply ‘onde’, a descendant of Latin ‘unde’. However, this word would end up getting reinforced by ‘de’ (“from”) twice because of an interesting series of ambiguities. Click my new infographic to see how it happened.

The word ‘foreign’ is etymologically related to ‘door’.
‘Foreign’ comes from Latin ‘forānus’ (outsider), a derivative of ‘forīs’ (outside). It got its silent g because people believed it had something to do with ‘reign’ – which it doesn’t. English ‘door’ is a distant cousin of ‘forīs’.
Within Germanic, it’s related to German ‘Tür’ and Swedish ‘dörr’, but words do stem from slightly different Proto

122 views The word ‘foreign’ is etymologically related to ‘door’. ‘Foreign’ comes from Latin ‘forānus’ (outsider), a derivative of ‘forīs’ (outside). It got its silent g because people believed it had something to do with ‘reign’ – which it doesn’t. English ‘door’ is a distant cousin of ‘forīs’. Within Germanic, it’s related to German ‘Tür’ and Swedish ‘dörr’, but words do stem from slightly different Proto

Spanish ‘usted’ and Portuguese ‘você’, words meaning “you”, don’t look much alike, but they have the same origin: Latin ‘vostram + mercēdem’, literally “your mercy”.
Click my new graphic to learn how ‘vostram mercēdem’, a reverential way of addressing someone indirectly, gradually became the pronouns ‘você’, ‘usted’, and Catalan ‘vostè’ – a fascinating history in which no Arabic was involved, cont

120 views Spanish ‘usted’ and Portuguese ‘você’, words meaning “you”, don’t look much alike, but they have the same origin: Latin ‘vostram + mercēdem’, literally “your mercy”. Click my new graphic to learn how ‘vostram mercēdem’, a reverential way of addressing someone indirectly, gradually became the pronouns ‘você’, ‘usted’, and Catalan ‘vostè’ – a fascinating history in which no Arabic was involved, cont

It won’t be too big a surprise that the words ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word: ‘of’.
However, if we go further back in time, it turns out they’re part of a huge word family that includes ‘after’, ‘ebb’, German ‘von’ (“of”), ‘aber’ (“but”), and Ancient Greek ‘apó’ (“away from”).
All of these words can be traced back to the same Proto-Indo-European ancestor.
Click my new infograph

87 views It won’t be too big a surprise that the words ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word: ‘of’. However, if we go further back in time, it turns out they’re part of a huge word family that includes ‘after’, ‘ebb’, German ‘von’ (“of”), ‘aber’ (“but”), and Ancient Greek ‘apó’ (“away from”). All of these words can be traced back to the same Proto-Indo-European ancestor. Click my new infograph

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Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

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🔥 Top post: The Spanish way of saying “from where” is ‘de donde’. However, t · 206 likes + reposts

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Posting cadence

4 / week

Posts several times a week.

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Mostly images

Recent: 1 text · 11 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

24×

Follows 156 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

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🔥 Top post The Spanish way of saying “from where” is ‘de donde’. However, to speakers living a thousand years ago, that would’ve meant “from from from where”. In Old Spanish, “from where” was simply ‘onde’, a descendant of Latin ‘unde’. However, this word would end up getting reinforced by… ★ 206

It won’t be too big a surprise that the words ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word: ‘of’. However, if we go further back in time, it turns out they’re part of a huge word family that includes ‘after’, ‘ebb’, German ‘von’ (“of… ★ 87

4/ He sounds like that guy from 'My big fat Greek wedding': youtu.be/jXt0VCPKfQ4 ★ 6

3/ Oh my, this one attracts a lot of mushroom smokers. ★ 13

2/ Ah, yes, and I come from that 35-year old bloke from Kazachstan who has the same hair colour as me. And he's got fingers and a nose too! ★ 14

The word ‘foreign’ is etymologically related to ‘door’. ‘Foreign’ comes from Latin ‘forānus’ (outsider), a derivative of ‘forīs’ (outside). It got its silent g because people believed it had something to do with ‘reign’ – which it doesn’t.… ★ 122 What if you could recover how words sounded thousands of years ago, and even hear the sounds of languages that have vanished from the face of the earth? Colin Gorrie wrote a brilliant article about reconstructing languages: https://www.dea… ★ 40

Dat is goed. Ik zal "MIJN APOTHEEK" wel raadplegen. Dit medicijnenzakje doet me denken aan de misboekjes bij familieleden die een uitvaart hadden in de rooms-katholieke kerk: 'Vandaag gedenken wij "NAAM OVERLEDENE", die op "DATUM" van ons … ★ 11

Je hoort vaak dat het woord 'vrijdag' afgeleid is van de godinnennaam 'Freya', maar dat klopt niet. Hoe zit het wel, en wat heeft dat te maken met Venus en 'vrouw'? Je leest het in mijn infographic voor het juli-nummer van @OnzeTaal - weer… ★ 28

Nee, Rabobank, deze saldo is niet aan het dalen. #verdezeming ★ 32

Naarstig op zoek naar winterse woorden die met sw- beginnen, liet ik me tegen mijn principes in verleiden om het even aan Google AI te vragen. Ach, we hebben in ieder geval weer gelachen. ★ 19

Spanish ‘usted’ and Portuguese ‘você’, words meaning “you”, don’t look much alike, but they have the same origin: Latin ‘vostram + mercēdem’, literally “your mercy”. Click my new graphic to learn how ‘vostram mercēdem’, a reverential way o… ★ 120

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toot.community

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 58 views per post.

📤Posts about 4× per week.

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86/100

Excellent Credibility score

99%

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Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~1.6% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
Established account (3+ years old).

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DJO-in ['dʑowɪn] Historisch taalkundige, schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord, en vaste auteur bij Onze Taal Historical linguist, writer photo: Dirk-Jan van Dijk

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