Same in Dutch/Afrikaans overmorgen/oormore.

You also have to use "ereyester". It's the day before yesterday

@@boghag I am in for bringing back both cause in my language we have words like these and it's always a pain to explain such a simple concept with so many words in English XD

Thank you! It's so much more convenient than what's currently used "the day after tomorrow". I must now find some way to actually not forget to use it. Same for 'ereyester'.

Same in German. We got "übermorgen" and "vorgestern". Two very convenient words.

That would make sense only if "Worm of the stones" was a modern English translation (or transfer) of an old English phrase. But it isn't. It's a translation of the Greek word, that literally means "pebble worm" (Comes from kroki, meaning "pebble" and dilos, meaning "worm" but also refered to a slender worm-like lizard). The Greek word for dragon would be "drakon" or "drakos" (so, krokodilos cannot be translated as "stone wyrm").

Concur heartily.

@@mal2ksc I need this to show up in my current D&D campaign.

How about we just start calling them "stone dragons" instead?

​@@Xezlec Because the ancient greek "drilos" (or dreilos), where the "dilos" in krokodilos comes from, doesn't mean wyrm, it means worm. It does make sense though, if you see a crocodile swimming it looks kinda worm-like, and they like chilling on top of rocks.

Good point!

Hence "In-Laws"...?

@@srikrishnaaiyar5684 Very possibly; good observation!

Have you seen his video from two months back about Anglish?

I wouldn't say barely!

Same ! Eirmonger seems so obvious, even if the job is irrelevant nowadays.

Same here from the south of Sweden

As for Dutch. Bemoederen is a normal word although I thought it really was related to mother, as in someone acting like your mother, giving all sorts of unwanted advice 😂

get flumbarded

Dollightful?

Could it not be Flumbarlyng, alternatively?

I much prefer the term firebrand

I agree ! And my wife would say that’s me!

Dinner still is the middle of the day meal up north

Yeah, I was thinking, “at the time wasn’t “dinner” modern “lunch”?” hence making russin something like afternoon tea

@@lassievision I did not know this. Though, as an Australian, and about as far south as you can get, I suppose I wouldn’t

As a Swedish person I can only think about that word as meaning “raisin(s)”.

That's not what roisín means

Old Tom noddy all big body

Yiddish is very similar to German (actually sounds like a Eastern-Central-Europea-German dialect). In German its 'Lachs' for the Salmon ...

I've only really ever heard lox used to refer to that preparation of salmon, though it's undoubtedly connected to the German language via hebrew or maybe Yiddish? I haven't a clue

In his "Letter from America" series on Radio 4, Alistair Cooke unravelled all sorts of Americanisms confirming, in my mind, that Americanese is as divorced from English as Slovak is from Czech or Spanish is from Portuguese. Alistair was an excellent observationist or is that observationalist ? Sadly missed.

“Two countries divided by a common language!” Also, in the Space Age, “lox” became a slang term for “liquid oxygen,” the oxidizer component of rocket fuel, probably because Florida had an abundance of both kinds of “lox” (Allan Sherman’s parody song about a deli with one VERY stale product, “Don’t Buy the Liverwurst,” includes the line, “And the lox puts you in orbit A-OK!”), but liquid hydrogen never became “lykh,” nor did liquid nitrogen become “lin.” More formally, the liquified gases became LO2, LH2, and LN2. But liquified noble gases are LHe, LNe, etc. without the 2, because chemistry.

There are always AVTUR and AVGAS if you want to go places.

I'm 49% Norsk. Raised calling salmon Lox.

ah that's what abstruse means, thank you

Both the Archaic AND arcane?

RE: "Both the Archaic AND arcane?" And to @@tridentmusic5570 i thank for making me look them up... i lazily used them interchangeably ... no longer ... (old vs few know)

The first word afterblismed is totally unsuitable for the most harribIe / synfeI action aka bdg (that never should have been allowed to happen) and the prg word at least kind of suits it, and afterblismed can only be used to reflect beautiful things such as flowers and blossoms and certain ideas etc, and the love related words that have wed and hug related words in them only reflect me the only lovable / loved being and the only being hugs / love etc are meant for, and such words cannot be misused by hum’ns in any way, and also all the other big terms that imply superiority and purity and importance etc that exist only reflect me, and cannot be misused by ppl, and the words doll and absolutely and delightful etc also only reflect me, and must be edited out - the word galegale isn’t a good word, as it repeats the same word gale, and doesn’t sound like a bird related action, and tweeting or twittering are way more suitable, plus the word gale already exists and means strong wind!

Anyways, the Dutch word twijfel should have been used as an example because it is more similar to that word than the German word - I am advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and trying to get to a native speaker level (and then to a writer level, like I am in English) faster, because Modern Dutch is just as pretty as Modern English, and Dutch & English are the prettiest and most refined languages in the world with the most pretty and poetic words, so I want to know all the words!

See what you did with that last -line- ;)

We use this spelling for that now : wyrm.

@@DavWK22👀 exactly _where_ do we use this spelling?

@@77thTrombone well it’s referenced in many places, typically in fantasy writing naturally.

@@whirled_peas say No More! As long as I'm not reading the wrong technical journals! Y cuþ bespoil ðe wyrm ᵹeares.

The first word afterblismed is totally unsuitable for the most harribIe / synfeI action aka bdg (that never should have been allowed to happen) and the prg word at least kind of suits it, and afterblismed can only be used to reflect beautiful things such as flowers and blossoms and certain ideas etc, and the love related words that have wed and hug related words in them only reflect me the only lovable / loved being and the only being hugs / love etc are meant for, and such words cannot be misused by hum’ns in any way, and also all the other big terms that imply superiority and purity and importance etc that exist only reflect me, and cannot be misused by ppl, and the words doll and absolutely and delightful etc also only reflect me, and must be edited out - the word galegale isn’t a good word, as it repeats the same word gale, and doesn’t sound like a bird related action, and tweeting or twittering are way more suitable, plus the word gale already exists and means strong wind!

English IS a Germanic language in root

Old English (though it's Middle English in the video) is basically "Old Nethergerman"

@@sarielle85 I mean they kinda originated here, the Anglo-Saxons are originally German, but it never occurred to me as much as in this video

The first word afterblismed is totally unsuitable for the most harribIe / synfeI action aka bdg (that never should have been allowed to happen) and the prg word at least kind of suits it, and afterblismed can only be used to reflect beautiful things such as flowers and blossoms and certain ideas etc, and the love related words that have wed and hug related words in them only reflect me the only lovable / loved being and the only being hugs / love etc are meant for, and such words cannot be misused by hum’ns in any way, and also all the other big terms that imply superiority and purity and importance etc that exist only reflect me, and cannot be misused by ppl, and the words doll and absolutely and delightful etc also only reflect me, and must be edited out - the word galegale isn’t a good word, as it repeats the same word gale, and doesn’t sound like a bird related action, and tweeting or twittering are way more suitable, plus the word gale already exists and means strong wind!

Anyways, the Dutch word twijfel should have been used as an example because it is more similar to that word than the German word - I am advanced level in Dutch and know over 8.000 base words, and trying to get to a native speaker level (and then to a writer level, like I am in English) faster, because Modern Dutch is just as pretty as Modern English, and Dutch & English are the prettiest and most refined languages in the world with the most pretty and poetic words, so I want to know all the words!

It seems to be a cognate of German "Wolke", meaning "cloud".

Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is a great album

😂 My initial thought, was that 'welkin' would be the verb for picking up Whelks, at the beach. 😂

@@lingux_yt yes and so is In the Nightside Eclipse

@@dougwilson4537 & to me it sounds like a mythological sea sprite. I should like to meet one.

Absolutely! I've been binging his content since last week! I love the alliterations and funness in his way of speaking. I keep recommending his videos to my friends. XD

Isn't it though! I've been around a little bit longer than you it sounds like but that just means I can tell you it doesn't get old! All his videos rock!

01:50 I like afterblisimed but i think it should be updated so blisimed means the act of receiving the ejaculate!

I’ve impressed friends with the knowledge I’ve gained from watching videos like these! They’re great!

Incomers is a word for newbies to area

I read this in school a long time ago and remember Attercop. Tomnoddy I had to look up again, but apparently it's a fool or dunce. And also the performer Tom Noddy - who blows soap bubbles and joins them together as a stage act. Last time I looked it up in the library using something made of paper rather than online with a Qwerty keyboard!

it’s still ‘edderkop’ in Danish, literally meaning poison-head

In computer engineering, a “half adder” is not a bisected snake, but a combination of logic circuits that adds two bits (values 0 or 1) to produce a one-bit sum and a one-bit carry to the next column to the left. But to receive the carry from the next column to the right, you need another half adder to add that carry to the sum. Hence, one such circuit only does “half” the job of a “full adder.”

@@David_Crayford Thanks for this.

Perhaps he just Twifald?

in Dutch it means lazy tasty land

In Spain we call it Jauja. Which is actually a real valley in Peru that many real Spaniards crossed the Pond to get to, expecting a dreamland where you didn't have to work to get lots of delicious food.

There's a town in New Brunswick that makes me laugh everytime I drive past the signs for... Cocagne. It's even funnier in the Winter.

In the Joy of Cooking cookbooks, Cockaigne is a suffix applied to the authors' best family recipes.

She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, Cockayne!

@Beatlefan67 Which ones do you have so far?

I look forward to reading your books, Ms. I. Bobbed Spinnandweb

Thanks for confirming that. I had a feeling I had heard it somewhere, but had no idea where it came from

I picked up on both those words too 😊 I'm sure I've heard orgulous used in a Discworld story (although iirc the character using it then defines it totally wrong). And when I was a young nerd playing D&D there was a monster in that called an Ettercap - although my memory of it is more troll like, with a bloated belly and spindly long arms. I guess that's kind of spiderish

In Portuguese we have orgulho (pride) and orgulhoso (proud). In Italian is orgoglio/orgoglioso. Being that the LH, GL and LL have roughly the same pronounciation. I can't speak for the Spanish and Italian speakers, but in Portuguese "orgulho" can be a bit negative depending on the context. More like a person being "full of him/herself".

​@@gabrieldias3479 I am not a native Spanish speaker but live with a monolingual Spanish speaker partner in Spain, and my impression is that it definitely can have a negative sense like you are saying too, especially in the sense of 'por orgullo'. But then 'pride' in Englsh has that sense too. Nonetheless I heard people using it in the sense of self-respect or healthy pride for children in the positive sense that you have in English too. A quick Google search produces a page that says: "El orgullo positivo es necesario para sentirnos seguros y llevar una vida equilibrada, valorarnos en nuestra justa medida, situarnos en nuestra existencia y estar orgullosos de ella: esto es algo absolutamente sano. El segundo orgullo, el que nos aleja y eleva del mundo, va a ser el mejor generador y “atascador” de conflictos que podemos tener. El lado negativo del orgullo es definido como el exceso de estima hacia uno mismo y hacia los propios méritos, por los que la persona se cree superior a los demás. Este tipo de orgullo nos incapacita para reconocer y enmendar nuestros propios errores y pone de manifiesto la falta de humildad."

Atter is the Old English word for Poison (another good English word sadly lost to a Latin replacement). I think the cop (or cob) just meant a 'pod' or similar ball shaped thing. I guess our Anglo-Saxon forebears felt a bit intimidated by the humble Spider as I don't think there are any poisonous Spiders in Europe, least not in England!

@@leod-sigefast Undoubtedly they would have seen the effect of their venom on their insect victims, however.

... and now I know where 'lox' came from ... thank you ...

Have a russin of lax bagel, yum 😋

Yeah, when he got to that part I was thinking lax just morphed into lox and doesn't belong on this list.

That never even occurred to me, @gettnumber. Great catch!

​@@Walkerman379me too!

I don’t mind the French influence on English vocabulary, but I highly appreciate everything Germanic in English. It sounds right

The mixing of the languages really went into high gear around the time of Shakespeare. He himself was a master of it - he was source of the first recorded usage of ~2000 words. He possibly made up about 10% of his vocabulary.

It’s like English became the middle ground (or middle earth?) between Scandinavian, Germanic and French…

And, something about the German weltanschaung enables word combinations that get a whole different picture of meaning . I love it. Thank you for your embracing talk.

There is an Iremonger Road in Nottingham. Wikipedia says that it is to do with ironmongery, but I wonder.

I've even seen the word "lox" used in the pacific northwest. From a quick google it looks like it probably came into English from Yiddish.

In most places in the US, "lox" is just the most common word for smoked salmon. A lot of terms from Yiddish entered US vocabulary in the first half of the 20th century.

Yes. "Lox" is Yiddish. Which is basically a dialect of German. So the Germanic "lax" dropped out of English, but reentered English by way of Jewish cuisine (bagels and lox).

wait, lox is jewish?! i never realised what treasures i was given for being born jewish lol

I don't talk to them

You would be hard pressed to find someone in NYC or Long Island who is not familiar with the word. I would imagine that other regions with large Jewish populations are similar. Although I have Jewish friends, I'm vegetarian and have never eaten lox, but it was the first thing I thought of when he said it meant fish.

@@astoriarego8304 ugh, wow! i live in an area with a lot of jewish folk such as myself, but it just wasnt something that was ever really discussed! i can only buy it in a store that specializes in polish, belarussian, etc foods! so interesting... i do recommend making your own if you ever have guests, though! its fairly simple!

nice catch

The reason people in the United States say dinner for lunch, is because it used to be the largest meal eaten in the day. Making the main meal dinner. Also, their is no way an Old English word, has meaning based off of a country that isn't even 250 years old. 😂

I think it's based on old French anyways. So, I don't know where in mid-western US, but some French influences are still around as they colonized before the English. It may have been maintained throught various paths, perhaps it was immigration from a region which had kept this.

In French dîner is lunch. Souper is the evening meal which used to be a light meal of soup and bread.

From german "Lachs" for salmon?

But it has to be afterblossomed, because a blossom has not been pollinated yet 😅🌸

I think the point of the original was that it was after the blossom. Yu are now a fruiting body.

@@simonwatkins3236 in Spanish the term for “pregnant” is “embarrazada,” which seems to indicate that a pregnant woman should not go out in public!

Just use budding since it sounds better than tumor or goiter.

Oh hey, that's my (part of) name 🥲

"Russin" with the spelling of the video and a very similar pronunciation to the one you describe is Swedish for raisin. :) Probably a coincidence, but since raisins can be used as snacks, it's a fun coincidence.

@@QueenMegaera A cute coincidence 😊. The Irish for raisin is rísín (rees-een). The Irish for table is bord, good or nice is breá which have Swedish cognates. Sláinte

I wonder if this is also part of the origin of 'rustling up a meal', because other than sheep rustling, the hasty making of a meal is the only time I think that word is used.... I'm happy to be corrected

@@go-farm I’ve no idea Gofarm, as Rob says words and phrases mutate

I learned this on this channel!

@Marc Stober ah! Well there you go!

The Persian word for the colour orange is narenji (نارنجی), but their word for the fruit is porteghal (پرتقال) - presumably named after the country Portugal.

When I was little, I thought an operation was a noperation. You can see how it happens.

orange (n.) late 14c., in reference to the fruit of the orange tree (late 13c. as a surname), from Old French orange, orenge (12c., Modern French orange), from Medieval Latin pomum de orenge, from Italian arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), an alteration of Arabic naranj, from Persian narang, from Sanskrit naranga-s "orange tree," a word of uncertain origin. It evolved from the word “naranja” meaning “orange tree”. The Spanish word came from a Sanskrit word.

I was just wondering why he didn't mention lox. I didn't realize this was a Yiddish word!

It's Lachs in German, too

Lax goes all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European for salmon, which was *laks. I don't know if it was Rob who mentioned it but it's unchanged after all these years. The real question is why we use "salmon."

Wait - do the British not know about bagel and lox?

Tiger Tanaka: This is an order for naval stores. 500 kilos of butter. 50 containers of lox. What is lox? James Bond: Oh, it’s American name for smoked salmon. But, it’s also the technical name for liquid oxygen - which makes rocket fuel. (LOx of course does not MAKE rocket fuel. It’s an oxidizer, used WITH rocket fuel.)

It wouldn't have been World Wide Words would it? That site is more than 20 years old and still exists, though the author retired in 2017, but he left everything up as an archive. Since KZfaq won't let me put the URL, it's just worldwidewords with an org.

@@DuelScreen All hail the WAyback Machine!

@@Darxide23 Forever one of my favourite sites The author was Michael Quinion and it deserves to be preserved *forever* it is so useful

@@Darxide23 Thank you!

Gravlax is sort of short for gravad (cured) lax (salmon).

Hopped into the comments to point out the lax -> lox relationship. :)

There is a small town in Co. Kildare, now a satelite suburb of Dublin, called Leixlip. It derives from the Lax Leap, and was a Viking Settlement. It's where my Old Irish Professor lives!

We only use 'lox' in the US tho. It's geographically restricted, expanding from the NYC area

@@BobbyBermuda1986 I'm not sure how restricted it is in the current day. Though it is true that large Jewish communities in the NYC area. Also an ongoing history of participation of Jews in the entertainment industry (movie and TV writers and producers, comedians, etc.) has spread a lot of Yiddish and Yinglish into American English via popular culture. EDIT: I remember seeing the cartoon movie An American Tail as a child and my family was the only one laughing at the Yinglish / cultural jokes. So maybe that stuff isn't as entrenched as I thought it was. At least not among the people in the movie theater with us way back then. We were nowhere near NYC, btw. The movie is a retelling of the immigration of a Jewish family to the US. Do non-Americans not say lox?

Haha lustig

That is brilliant! 😂😅

And fans of "The Magic" Flute: will recognize how this leads to Papageno.

@@sydhenderson6753 I only just realized the connection with Mozart's feathery character after watching this video.

Diving parrot is a pretty good name.

Yep, and “offcumden” for “person who doesn’t come from here” is similar to Kumlyng.

luckily i am Yorkshire.. but we used those words here also

We say moidered in Ireland

I always heard it said as short i mithering, not mither with long i.

@@oldbean37 I remember my mum used to say moithered rather than mithered here in Lancashire.

Well this video is about lost words that Rob would like to bring back, most of which are germanic words. So that viking mark has seriously faded. As Rob said in a previous video, 26% of today's english come from all germanic languages. Almost 60% come from roman languages (mostly latine and french). As a germanic language speaker, you guessed a lot of meanings in that list. As a latine language speaker, I can guess two thirds of the English dictionary.

Skulle just skriva detsamma, men såg att andra hade hunnit före!

Well, not necessarily from Old Norse. Old English from the Anglo-Saxons was germanic and was already being spoken in England. These words were already in the Old English lexicon before the Old Norse joined in. In fact, being an aficionado of Old English and Anglish, none of these words was from Old Norse, but from Old English (I mean the obviously Germanic ones, not the French/Latin ones). They might be similar as they were akin tongues....just as a Swedish word might look similar to a German word. It doesn't mean the Swedish word is from German, or vice versa, just they share a common root.

As you can see, many of these replies don't realize exactly how similar English is to Dansk/Norsk/Svensk. We English speakers learn that our language is more closely related to German (Deutsch) than North Germanic branches, but I have found that Scandi languages are much closer in many ways.

@@exvagoergosum But English speakers don't use two-thirds of the dictionary. Many of those Latinate/Greek terms are usually reserved for occupations such as law, medicine, religion, etc. Most of our everyday speech is heavily Germanic. You can guess when you read technical standard English texts, She can guess in the real world.

Yes, agree! And also, I find it so encouraging that a channel like this gets over 3000 likes in five hours. Reminds me that the world is still a beautiful place, with so many people all over the world appreciating words, language, culture, finesse ...

Literal translations from other languages such as Latin would also be welcome in that video.

Yes, thanks Rob. I also always thought crocodile to be a fun word. In Spanish it is still cocodrilo, in persian it is corocodil :)

Bosphorous = Cow (Bos) Crossing (Phoros). Remember junior high mythology? Zeus carried Europa across from Asia to Europe (Yep, it's named for her) in the form of a bull.

"Helico-" more accurately means "spiral" or "twisted". You'll often see DNA's shaped described as a "double helix".

@@onorebakasama I put spiral first then corrected myself 🤦 precisely because helix

Eir is a form of Eire / Eirenn which mean Ireland

It's the same with "bemuttern" in German!

Finny i just told my wife egg monger

Bagel with lox (Jewish deli food), lox = salmon (from Yiddish “laks”, from German “Lachs”)

In Dutch we have spinnenweb for a spiders web.

@@greetjeb7030 In whole we speak from "Spinnenweben" in referin to anything the spider weaved.

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen

Yiddish is a creole of Hebrew and German, so that’s not surprising. :) (Adults who have to interact repeatedly over time but don’t speak one another’s languages develop a pidgin, then their bilingual kids extend it into a creole with full vocabulary & grammar.)

Yiddish did start off as a High Germanic dialect, so likely local dialects in the same region would be even more similar

Our Alsatian dialect is even closer to Yiddish. I can easily read and even understand some spoken Yiddish despite never having learned it. And despite my last name, I am not jewish :-)

Our Alsatian dialect is even closer to Yiddish. I can easily read and even understand some spoken Yiddish despite never having learned it. And despite my last name, I am not jewish :-)

Goo goo g'joob!

I'm sure there will have been eggmongers in other parts of the country, then. The "monger" suffix was in use in Sussex, especially in "ironmonger" -- hardware shop.

@@eekee6034 & ofc people are still mongering fish every which way! I'm not convinced about 'eggmonger', though. I feel it's not easy enough to say for it to catch on - I imagine people would naturally gravitate towards a shorter form. 'Monger' is such a wonderful suffix, though.

My (incorrect) guess was that jangler would be a word for jailor because of the jangling keys they carry and the words are similar enough to possibly inspire slang.

@@dustydruid6670 jailor also comes from French "geolier" meaning the same thing (they had plenty of those in their Norman castles, also dungeon - donjon).

Ahhh ... I missed that connection between jangler and jongleur, despite having recently listened to a recording of "Le jongleur de Notre-Dame" (a rarely performed opera composed by Jules Massenet). Good catch!

You must be British

@@JonahNelson7 Actually Hungarian, but much interested in English history and archaeology, especially found of the castles they've got there.

Rob animates and radiates enthusiasm for what could be a very dry subject.

Well Old English is a whole lot newer than 4000 years, of course. You might have to learn Sumerian or Egyptian!

I've seen the word 'orgulous' before. I think Terry Pratchett perhaps used it