Freitag, 6. Februar 2026

xkcd on "Groundhog Day"

 Putting that here so I can find it if I need to refer to it:

Just a reminder that for establishing an etymology, you often need to know a lot of cultural background. Which we mostly don't have for most of unwritten history. Therefore, we will mostly miss those etymologies that are not based on trivial or widely attested semantic changes.