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Literally 20 secs of googling would have answered that for you. No. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widget https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widget
by throwaway_pdp09 6y ago
Literally 20 secs of googling would have answered that for you. No. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widget https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widget
- sriku 6y agoNot sure if you're seeing something different on that page, but for my view, the "widget" page makes no mention of "wedjat" and vice versa. But it is spelled "wadjet" instead .. and that page makes no mention of widget either.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoEtymology 1 Coined by George S. Kaufman in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924). Edit: that wedjat/wadjet does not appear on the page does alone suggest there's no link.
- sriku 6y agoNot necessary (rgd the edit). Comparative linguistics (however questionable) is a thing. For example, the page for October - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/October https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/October - does not mention any connection to indo-germanic languages where "october, november and december" have roots that map to the sanskrit "ashta, nava, dasha" (eight, nine, ten) which correspond to the eighth, ninth and tenth months in the roman calendar.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoIt was coined in 1924. It was made up. Invented. Which part of that was unclear?
- sriku 6y agoFor some reason that didn't hit me at all. Perhaps I was already in a mode to draw a link. Apologies.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoNo problem, we've all done that.