How far back in time can you understand English?
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SOLVED. I just tried again on the 3rd day and it worked. No idea what happened, but I’ll take it!
Import/Export settings error
Import/Export settings error - Lemmy.World
Anyone else get the “please wait a few minutes before trying to import or export settings again” error? It worked importing the same file to another account, but not this particular one. It gave me the error yesterday, so I gave up and went to sleep. Today it’s saying the same thing. I was thinking maybe the file size is too big? But it’s only 21 kb. =\
Etymology of "pool"
Etymology of "pool" - Lemmy.world
Did you know pool, as in billiards, pooling money/stakes/resources, car pool, gene pool, etc. are all etymologically related to French poule, as in chicken and poultry? 🐓🐓🐓 — Pool: [https://www.etymonline.com/word/pool] A game similar to billiards, 1848, originally (1690s) the name of a card game played for collective stakes, from pool “collective stakes of players in a game,” which is from French poule “stakes, booty, plunder,” literally “hen,” from Old French poille “hen, young fowl,” of Latin pullus “young animal,” especially “young fowl,” from PIE root pau- “few, little.” The original meaning is believed to be from the Medieval French game of chicken, jeu de la poule, in which people threw things at a chicken and the player who hit it first won the game, and perhaps a collective pot of money. The notion behind the word, then, is “playing for money.” From Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12870068]: “The term got transferred to other things. At card games, the pot of money in the middle of the table came to be known as the poule. English gamblers picked the term up and brought it back with them in the 17th century. They changed the spelling to pool, but they still had a pool of money in the middle of the table.” The connection of “hen” and “stakes” is also present in Spanish polla and Walloon paie (I didn’t take the time to research these, but just included it if anyone’s interested). By 1868 pool came to mean “combination of a number of persons, each staking a sum of money on the success of a horse in a race, a contest in a game, etc., the money to be divided among the successful bettors,” thus also “collective stakes” in betting. The sense of “common reservoir of resources” is from 1917. — By the way – not to be confused with the other pool as in “small body of standing water” (swimming pool, tide pool, rock pool). The etymologies are totally different. :)
Etymology – For fans of word and phrase origins to learn and share interesting findings
Etymology – For fans of word and phrase origins to learn and share interesting findings - Lemmy.world
Hello all! I just created an Etymology [/c/[email protected]] community on LemmyWorld. Hope to see it grow. :) /c/[email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [email protected] [/c/[email protected]]