is it just something our brain made up or is it actually true that the word "testify" shares an etymology with "testicle" and originated from a custom of swearing on one's genitals
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@Felthry etymoline says y'all're close but it's actually vice-versa https://www.etymonline.com/word/testis
@Felthry *nods*
looking at the etymonline page again, it looks like it offers a couple competing hypotheses, so
I think we'd have to actually do research if we wanted to form an informed opinion
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@packbat yeah that's understandable! sounds like we probably heard a factoid and got it wrong
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@packbat @chr i'm having a hard time believing that the "testicle" sense comes from "witness"; that feels like a really tenuous link
it could be a case of unrelated morphemes converging into homographs though
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