Etymology 101

Where do words come from?

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[Dagga07]

(heath) ledger and (christian) bale in (dark) knight?. all these words mean something even the ones out of brackets. what u think?

[LLO525Star]

You're on to something. develop it further, see where it takes you.

[1000gohead]

I looked up the word Heath- A dwarf shrub habitat found on mainly infertile acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, and it is said there isn't a clear difference between heaths and moorland or (Moor). On one of my favirote video games Zelda there was a race of humanoid plant-like beings called Deku Scrubs (Shrubs) and most of them were dwarfs like the definition of Heath. The Deku shrubs are Black & Brown with big lips. Deku Butler has AFRO PUFFS!

[jaysten12]

Not hating just suggesting, lose the music, and make each slide 2-3 seconds longer.

[agewise]

Better for me as I checked it out without sound...nevertheless it was good. Congrats on a good video!

[sneighwena]

o Slavic is the mother of all languages. Unfortunately, Germanic/Anglo historians tend to write in a biased fashion. Look at all the dictionaries out there where the oldest and nearest they want to go is Old French, Old German, or Greek. But why not Slavic which shares a lot in common with ancient Celtic? For example the word Dale. Dale is a valley. In Serbian we say Dolina for valley and then we say dole meaning "down". Yet how many diction. will even mention a Slavic influence

[ustilllyinanyway]

ok i see now!!!!

[yesantonio]

Phoenician is a profession not a nationality or ethnic group.

[ELSORD83]

You stated Indo-European IS Phoenician!!! The language is not the same as the Alphabet. Turkish can be written in Latin or Arabic script but it is neither Indo-European or Semetic. The alphabet is just the way the language is represented visually. I stress I'm in no way denying that the Greek alphabet was derived from the Phoenician. I do however strongly dispute your claim that the language does.

[ThaFlyestMoor72]

What??  Then tell me what they did?

[ThaFlyestMoor72]

First of all Names in Ancient Times had meanings behind them. Like Ethiopian in Greek is Burnt Face/people. Yet I'm not saying that Ethiopian was Greek. Don't try to change words. All I'm stating is that the Name Europe comes from a Phoenican Women. Everything about the Greek Language and Letters all go back to the Phoenican Language and letters I guess it's all a big coincidence right? I mean come on you're very intelligent you just don't want to face the facts.

[ELSORD83]

I'm sorry but that is terrible reasoning. That's like saying Algonquin or Nahuatl come from Italian just because America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. The name Asia comes from the Greek but it would be incredibly stupid to say all languages in Asia come from Greek.