My favourite piece of folk etymology is Latin amor “love” deriving from a- < an-, a prefix denoting absence or lacking, and *mor < mors “death”, meaning “deathless” or “without death”, because love makes us immortal and it lives on after death uwu.
My favourite piece of folk etymology is Latin amor “love” deriving from a- < an-, a prefix denoting absence or lacking, and *mor < mors “death”, meaning “deathless” or “without death”, because love makes us immortal and it lives on after death uwu.
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