c/til · by bhmnscmm@lemmy.world · 3yTIL the word "apron" comes from the Old French word "napron." Over time "a napron" became "an apron." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apron87 points · 10 comments · view on lemmy.world
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CautiousYellow@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 3y
orange is the same: "a norange -> an orange", hence "una naranja" in Spanish.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social · 13 pts · 3y
Rebracketing is the standard linguistics term for this phenomenon, in case anyone's curious.
madsen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Similar thing with "a nickname", which came from "an ekename".
ALERT@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
an a.k.a name
sepiroth154@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 3y
So nickname is a nickname for an ekename, gotcha.
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y
Check out the YouTube channel "Rob Words", as he covered this. It was news to me too!
Haus@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
Similar: 'Nuncle' came from 'mine uncle'.
can@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y
I'm getting Tumblr folk etymology vibes from this.
scott@lem.free.as · 1 pts · 3y
Nope.
It comes from the French 'oncle', from the Latin 'avunculus'.
Hank@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
So should we short it down to pron?