How do people know where certain words come from?
In: 0
You mean etymology? It’s the study of words and their origins.
Language is a communication of concepts, and that concepts are determined by culture. Words can comes from either making new words to describe something, an evolution of describing something that turned into a word, or adopting new words from other cultures.
All of these can be traced and some can be interesting, especially when you want to determine how insults are formed.
Latest Answers