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On a similar note, I've heard that the words for animals, like cow or pig, tend to be Germanic while the words for their meat, like beef or pork tend to be Lati
by yissp 5y ago
On a similar note, I've heard that the words for animals, like cow or pig, tend to be Germanic while the words for their meat, like beef or pork tend to be Latin.
- seanhunter 5y agoThe food/meat words are actually from French because that was what the aristocratic classes would have spoken in England in the late middle ages/early Rennaisance and they were the people eating the meat for the most part. Beef <- Boeuf Pork <- Porc Poultry <- Poulet Salmon <- Saumon Venison <- Venaison Mutton <- Mouton The latin words are in some cases the root of the French but it's not as clear or consistent.