grumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · edit-21 month agoWizard originally meant a wise or learned personthelemmy.clubimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1250arrow-down11
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minus-squarekarashta@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·2 months agoThe ending “ard” meant being in a specified condition. Coward- in an easily cowed condition, Dullard- in a dull condition, Drunkard- in a drunk condition, Wizard- in a wise condition
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoThanks, I love me some entomology facts
minus-squareHazel@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoThanks, I love me some etymology facts :3
minus-squareterranoid@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoOh no someone Shard my pants
minus-squareGodric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoBass - born in fishy circumstances
minus-squareHazel@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoBastard is ‘having been conceived on a bast’, old French word for ‘saddle’. I take it to mean something like not having been conceived at home with the usual suspect (the wife) but elsewhere.
The ending “ard” meant being in a specified condition.
Coward- in an easily cowed condition, Dullard- in a dull condition, Drunkard- in a drunk condition, Wizard- in a wise condition
Bard
Thanks, I love me some entomology facts
Board
Thanks, I love me some etymology facts :3
Oh no someone Shard my pants
What about bastard?
Bass - born in fishy circumstances
Bastard is ‘having been conceived on a bast’, old French word for ‘saddle’. I take it to mean something like not having been conceived at home with the usual suspect (the wife) but elsewhere.