58008@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoHow did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareHow did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?58008@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square46linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoProbably the same way you got pineapple from Ananas.
minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoEh, it’s a fruit that looks like a pinecone and white people are really unimaginative when naming things sometimes. Pineapple
minus-squarehakase@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 days agoSo the proposal is that “bicycle” was replaced by something completely etymologically unrelated and that has never been productively used in English? I think that’s unlikely.
Probably the same way you got pineapple from Ananas.
Eh, it’s a fruit that looks like a pinecone and white people are really unimaginative when naming things sometimes. Pineapple
So the proposal is that “bicycle” was replaced by something completely etymologically unrelated and that has never been productively used in English? I think that’s unlikely.