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I know another English word that comes from Indonesian, as my friend from there likes to proudly tell everyone, "Orangutan". The original meaning is something l
by franciscop 4y ago
I know another English word that comes from Indonesian, as my friend from there likes to proudly tell everyone, "Orangutan". The original meaning is something like "the man of the jungle". I found it really interesting since it's the same word in Spanish, so basically this word has come all the way around the world.
Though TBF a "species word" is a bit of a cheat, since I'm sure there are many more local species like that where if you know the name it'd be in the foreign language, it's just "orangutan" is a fairly common word compared to more specific species names.
About the rest of the article, agreed, the best relationships I've ever had (friends, flings or girlfriends) have always had that curiosity factor strongly present. Though I guess it depends and you need to be a curious person for you to care about it first? Non-curious people might find curiosity boring or even immature?
- soheilpro 4y agoorang (person) + hutan (jungle)
- madmax108 4y agoRandom tangent, but the word "jungle" itself is one of the many words that came into english from Indian languages such as Hindi (which in turn got it from the ancient language of Sanskrit) Tracing the origins of words we use so commonly truly amazes me! Now go look up what binds together the origins of the words "Salary", "Salads" and "Salami" ;-)
- bergenty 4y agoThere are a bunch of Hindi words in English.