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Pedantry: Tolkien's "Middle-Earth" is itself a "folksy mistranslation" Closer translation-- "Middle-Yard" Old English word eardgeard =Earth-Yard / ˈæ͜ɑrdˌjæ
by vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago
Pedantry:
Tolkien's "Middle-Earth" is itself a "folksy mistranslation"
Closer translation-- "Middle-Yard"
Old English word eardgeard =Earth-Yard
/ ˈæ͜ɑrdˌjæ͜ɑrd / "ardyard" /
https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=104937 https://www.theundergroundmap.com/article.html?id=104937
https://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/wanderer/notes/note85a.html https://english.nsms.ox.ac.uk/oecoursepack/wanderer/notes/no...
- vintermann 6mo agoI guess that's where Tolkien's "Arda" comes from as well then.
- card_zero 6mo agoOr even garden.
- lostlogin 6mo agoThank you. I’m not American and was trying work that out. I went straight to metric and Middle Metre approximate and is wrong.
- herewulf 6mo ago'garden' came into English via Old French but it's ultimately Frankish (another Germanic language) so 'yard' and 'garden' are cognates. Interestingly they have a close sense. https://www.etymonline.com/word/garden https://www.etymonline.com/word/garden
- vi_sextus_vi 6mo ago"Nasty, British, and Small," screams the Hanging Yards of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_(TV_series)