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Looks like 'medus' and 'mead' have the same root, offhand?
by davidw 5y ago
Looks like 'medus' and 'mead' have the same root, offhand?
- sanqui 5y agoIndeed. And the Lithuanian word for 'bee', bitė, is also cognate with the English word as per Wiktionary[1]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit%C4%97#Lithuanian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bit%C4%97#Lithuanian
- riffraff 5y agoThe proto-balto-slavic root for honey is "med", which is why the word for bear is usually some variation of "medved", meaning "honey eater", due to that weird process where something scary becomes taboo and gets replaces with some phrase. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/medv%C4%9Bd%D1%8C https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...