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Molino is mulino in Italian. Ancient Greek and Latin had similar words starting with mol-. Given the importance of that technology I'm not surprised that the wo
by pmontra 4y ago
Molino is mulino in Italian. Ancient Greek and Latin had similar words starting with mol-. Given the importance of that technology I'm not surprised that the word didn't change much. English' mill is also close to the romance languages. [1]
Port and starboard used to be "babordo" and "tribordo" in Italian but they were replaced by "sinistra" (the very word used to say "left") and "dritta".
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mill#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mill#Etymology_1
- kwhitefoot 4y agoBabord is port in Norwegian. But starboard is styrbord which makes a lot of sense because the steering board, or oar, is on the steersman's right side.
- ekianjo 4y agoBabord is also used in French
- stefncb 4y agoWe use "tribord" and "babord" in romanian.
- oesexe 4y agoDanish as well. I didn’t see it mentioned, so I will add: that back then, a ship could not moor along the key on starboard/styrbord side. So it had to be the other side: hence the English port side.
- anthk 4y agoBabor y estribor in Spanish. In Spanish we used to say "siniestra", now we say "izquierda", a loanword from Basque 'ezkerra'.