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Alliterative/Endless Knot @AllEndlessKnot@toot.community

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is PENGUIN/ADVISER/TWIT #wotd #penguin #adviser #twit #tariffs #Penguins #penguintariff #PenguinsAgainstTrump

What kind of twit and his advisers would impose tariffs on a bunch of penguins, even if it’s etymologically appropriate? The word penguin, originally applied to the similar looking and now extinct great auk, seems to come from Welsh pen gwyn “white head” from pen “head, headland” + gwyn “white”, which itself can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European *wi-n-d-o-, the suffixed nasalized zero-grade form of the root *weid- “to see”. The form *wid-e- of this root also came into Latin as videre “to see, look” with the past participle visum, which with the addition of the prefix a- led to Old French avis “opinion” and aviser “to deliberate, reflect, consider”, borrowed into English in the late 13th c. in the sense “to view, consider” and developing the current sense of advise “to give counsel to” in the late 14th c., with the agent noun form adviser appearing in the 1610s. This same PIE root also passed into Proto-Germanic as *witanan “to look after, guard, ascribe to, reproach”, which became Old English witan “to blame”, producing the prefixed form ætwitan “to blame, reproach”, which was eventually shortened to twit, both as a verb meaning “to blame, reproach, taunt, upbraid” and as a noun meaning “foolish, stupid and ineffectual person”.

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Andy Bunday on #TradeWar #TrumpTariffs #TradePolicy #tariffs #Trump #JDVance #PenguinsAgainstTrump #PenguinTariffs - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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