wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agoImportant historyhexbear.netimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squarethethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAlcohol “is a medieval loan from Arabic al-kuḥl, a powdered ore of antimony used since antiquity as a cosmetic, and retained that meaning in Middle Latin.”
minus-squareNoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoand then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl
minus-squareCollatz_problem [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAL GUL
Alcohol “is a medieval loan from Arabic al-kuḥl, a powdered ore of antimony used since antiquity as a cosmetic, and retained that meaning in Middle Latin.”
and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl
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