• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    132·
    1 day ago

    Fun fact, the original word for bear has been lost because people refused to mention them directly - like Voldemort

    • GandalftheBlack@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      50 minutes ago

      This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos for taboo reasons, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.