Carrot
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Roots
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latin
Roots
Weather
Heat Cold
Bugs
Bee Grasshopper The word for this insect is quite easy to analyze from Fench “sauterelle”, which stems from “sauter”, to Bulgarian скакалец, which comes from …
Time
Day Friday The fifth day For most languages represented in the map, the first day of the week is Monday, and thus Friday is the …
Cardinal
North / South West / East
Nothing
A map of the word nothing in several different languages and its etymology
Nightmare
Nightmares were a mystery often explained as evil spirits visiting people when they are most vulnerable, during sleep. Many languages will make reference to the …
A R T
The gender of a word in linguistics is a category that divides the nouns into different classes. It can range from two to four, or …
America
Castilian? Isn’t that Spanish too? Yes. They are synonyms however in some places one is used more than the other. There is a map from …
Herbs
Basil, the king This etymology map is about the names of one culinary herb, basil. It comes from βασιλικόν φυτόν (basilikón phutón) “royal (plant)” in Ancient Greek. The …