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Robot actually means "slave" in Czech language.

• stonogo 11y ago
  No it doesn't. That's "otrok". "Robot" is derived from the Polish for "chore".
  • dudul 11y ago
    http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/where-does-the-word-robot-come-from/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/where-does-t... "Josef suggested ‘roboti’, which gave rise to the English ‘robot’. ‘Roboti’ derives from the Old Church Slavanic ‘rabota’, meaning ‘servitude’, which in turn comes from ‘rabu’, meaning ‘slave’."
    • pvg 11y ago
      It still doesn't mean 'slave' in Czech, even if it is related.
      • dudul 11y ago
        Ok I guess I should have said that its root comes from the ancient word for "slave".
• ommunist 11y ago
  No. Thy the term itself was invented by Czech author Chapek, it has no that meaning.
• thaumasiotes 11y ago
  And hey, the english word "slave" comes from the ethnic group that gave us the Czechs, but I don't think that says much about modern Czechs or modern slaves.
  • schoen 11y ago
    Amazingly, also cognate with "ciao" (via Italian "schiavo"). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ciao#Etymology_3 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ciao#Etymology_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao#Etymology