random amusing thing: we know that bears used to have another name in germanic languages but not what that name was
the word bear originates from an old germanic word meaning something along the lines of "the brown one", because people were terrified of bears and the usual thing of not being comfortable saying the name of such things
i wonder if there's some minor language or dialect somewhere that's preserved something related to the original name
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@Felthry Greek and Latin both sorta kept it! https://xkcd.com/2381/
@lorxus well i'm talking specifically about the germanic language family! though this is old enough that it's probably related to arctos, yeah
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@lorxus "latin is more ungerman than greek" is the kind of sentence you only get out of us, hah
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