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>had the last name (Polish budzik) translated as “alarm clock,” which To add to your personal note, this is the modern translation, etymologically this is more
by hifromwork 2y ago
>had the last name (Polish budzik) translated as “alarm clock,” which
To add to your personal note, this is the modern translation, etymologically this is more like "the one doing the waking" (similarly to how English "computer" used to describe a person).
- keiferski 2y agoYeah I assumed it was more of a description for a person, not a reference to the device. I'm not sure there were even alarm clocks in rural Poland at the time. IIRC a lot of words in French also work this way: simple translations today, but with more elaborate historical etymologies.