I'd like to ask him: why "yoke"? The word brings up an image of two tethered together, yes. But they still are separate organisms. You would never look at a pair of yoked oxen and think they are one being, even though they are pulling the load as one.
Instead, why not base the word for "fertilized cell" on συνδυασμός, meaning " two combined into one"? We could have a syndual instead of a zygote.
Just random thoughts. 😁
#TIL that there once existed a 30-cm-long, massive-eyed, arthropod-like thingy known as "Dollocaris ingens."
AKA "D. ingens."
And this, my friends, is glorious news,
because "Dingens"
happens to be
the German word
for "thingy."
Those clever scientists -- such cards!
TIL that these words:
from #English -- mandarin, mantra, mental, mind
from #German -- munter
from #AncientGreek: μᾰνθᾰ́νω (manthánō)
from #Irish: meanma
from #Lithuanian: manyti
all share the same root word.
LANGUAGE IS SO COOL.
Court Cantrell does not comply